Miahuatlan

Miahuatlan was a Zapotec city-state in the mountains south of the Oaxaca valleys, known as Pelopenitza to the Zapotecs. Its market exchanged local cochineal, amole and cotton mantas for goods from farther afield.

In the early sixteenth century the Aztec Empire apparently conquered Miahuatlan under Moctezuma II, making it a provincial capital governed by a Mexica official and demanding jewels and gold dust. After the Spanish conquest of Oaxaca in 1521, its inhabitants paid the new authorities honey, gold dust, mantas and turkeys.