The customs, religion, Administration and Government were relaxed. New lineages began to create "Lordships". Small city-states with influence on large rural areas. Conflicts and wars were soon present. The ideal of the peoples and cultures of the Postclassical, were trying to restore the Toltec domain, not by virtue and wisdom, but by alliances and weapons. The creation of a "Zuyuano State"[1] predominated in the Postclassical period.
In almost all powerful Postclassical period towns, they tried to justify material expansion and dominance over other peoples and regions, by seeking to reactivate or recreate the total domination of the Cem Anahuac, the Toltec managed in the previous Millennium. This nostalgia for power was not supported by wisdom and virtue, as was proposed by the Toltecáyotl. It was not what prompted this desire for power and material wealth. What encouraged this expansion were political power and expansion of their State, given that, despite the decline, the anahuacas did not use trade as a source of power, since their ancient culture imposed a traditional austerity and frugality attitude that has survived until today in the people called indigenous and peasants of the so-called "profound Mexico".
Within the anahuaca civilization, there was no consumption cult, not “many goods” were produced and of these, very few were luxurious. Goods produced were always for families and communities self-consumption. Barter satisfied the few consumption needs. This changed a little since 1440, when
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- ↑ The Zuyuano regime is a concept developed by Alfredo López Austin and Leonardo López Luján based on mythology and the Mesoamerican political structures of the 15th century; its meaning is different from the Zuyuan. When speaking of the zuyuano it does not only refer to an ethnic group, a language or specific region. The zuyuano refers to a type of political control and its ideological base which possibly arose shortly before 800 CE, as a combination or derivation of the Coyotlatelco culture. Political control corresponds to a hegemonic model of military government of large territorial areas on a heterogeneous ethnic population. The ideological basis is crystallized in political-religious institutions (the Triple Alliance) which seek to establish world order through military orders cohesively for the common worship, (either Quetzalcoatl and Huitzilopochtli) the establishment of a Government of a demigod is the case of the "Moteuczomas" and their projections (see Gillespie, Susan. The Aztec Kings. Ed. Siglo XXI. 1993.) According to this tradition its origin is from the same place that among other names is called Tollan, Zuyúa, Tulán-Siwán. In this regime the Quetzalcoatl myths are linked to justify power over various ethnic groups.
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