Over 100 Mixteca city-states (centered in the central Pacific Coast region of Oaxaca, Mexico) could be found in the period 900 A.D. until 1450 A.D.

JOYCE MARCUS -- Ph.D. Harvard University – Professor at University of Michigan

"Your overarching statement -- that factional conflicts can lead or do lead to war is certainly true in the 5 or 6 cases I know (Zapotec, Maya, Tarascan, Mixtec, Otomi, Aztec, Inka, etc....).  

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