Thanks for your responses, Andrew and Lawrence.  What are thoughts about
a new property (e.g. "ruled by" or "governed by") that expresses this
sentiment?

Please advise, James Weaver


On Thu, Jan 14, 2016, at 05:48 AM, Lawrence Troup wrote:
> Hi James,
>
> This is quite similar to my proposal for a "culture" property [1],
> which would be used e.g. for Tenochtitlan [Q13695] has "culture"
> Mexica [Q3307681] (and probably also has culture Aztec [Q12542]). You
> could potentially extend the usage of this attribute so that you could
> have the "culture" of the Aztec Empire set to Mexica.
>
> I agree with Andrew that "inhabited by" is a property that needs
> adding - though in this case, it wouldn't  indicate that Mexica were
> rulers of the Aztec Empire, just that they lived in it.
>
> Thanks, Lawrence
>
> [1] "culture" property proposal:
>     
> https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Property_proposal/Creative_work#culture
>
> On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 at 09:49 Andrew Gray
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>>
Interesting question, this one. There's no easy way to link, eg,
>>
"France" and "French people".
>>
>>
We have a property for "category of associated people" (P1792), so:
>>
France [P1792] Category:French people; & in turn that has a
>>
"category's main topic": Category:French people [P301] French people -
>>
but this is very convoluted!
>>
>>
I wonder if this might be something looking for a suitable new
>>
property - "inhabited by"? "associated nationality"?. Alternatively,
>>
we could use P17, "country", on the item for the population group -
>>
this is a bit generic, but it would work.
>>
>>
Andrew.
>>
>>
On 13 January 2016 at 18:58,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
> I want to add relationships between Mexica :Q3307681and Aztec Empire
>>
> :Q794210 [1] where Mexicas were an indigenous people of the Valley of
>>
> Mexico, known today as the rulers of the Aztec empire.  I
> haven't found
>>
> any properties that seem appropriate to me so I'd like to get your
>>
> insight before adding any.  What properties would be most appropriate?
>>
>
>>
> [1] ConceptMap link: http://bit.ly/1RMVgsD
>>
>
>>
> Regards,
>>
> James Weaver
>>
>
>>
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