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 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" 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 ____________________