Chalcos

One of the tribes inhabiting Lake Texcoco.

People that are from Chalco descendants are named in Nahuatl Chalcatl or Chalcah.

History

These people were part of the great migration for Aztlan at Chicomoztoc and part of The Great Migration.

In the 1300s, and the early 1400s, the Flower Wars were fought against the Chalco and the Aztec. The worst part of the war being in 1446. According to the Amaqueme historian named Chimalpahin, this happened because the Chalco did not want to give building materials for construction of the Temple of Huitzilopochtli. 

In or around the year of 1465, the Chalco were conquered by the Tlatoani Moctezuma Ilhicamina I. And the kings at the time were exiled to Huexotzinco. Those exiled rulerships came back by the Tlatoani Tizoc, in 1486 and incorporated new Tlatoque. Which was made by the "diplomacy work" of the Chalcan musician Quecholcohuatl. He performed a "politically driven composition" for the Tlatoani Axayacatl in 1479.

The Chalco payed more tribute in food than in any other tribe in the Lake Texcoco Region, hypothesized because of its great location of crops.