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Where did Mexico get its name?

Tenochtitlan was named Mexico City by the Spaniards so they named the entire
country after it.
The Aztecs called themselves the Mexica people so the Spaniards named it after
them.
The Maya called themselves the Mexica people so the Spaniards named it after
them.
The Spanish named the Aztecs "the Mexica" so they called it Mexico.

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Answer:

the Aztecs

Step-by-step explanation:

the word “Mexico” came from the Nahuatl for “place of the Mexica,” who were the nomadic peoples who found their way into the Valley of Mexico from a mythical northern land called Aztlán, the ancestral home of the Aztec peoples.

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