How did the Columbian Exchange end? What was the most devastating aspect of the Columbian Exchange? How did Europe become so powerful through the Columbian Exchange? What was an economic result of the Columbian Exchange? How did the Columbian Exchange affect population size and movement?
How did the Mali Empire revolutionize trade? How did the Srivijaya Empire become wealthy? How did the Ottoman Empire consolidate power? How did the Ottoman Empire maintain power? How was power transferred in the Ghana Empire? How did the Aztecs maintain power in their empire?
negotiated what has become known as theTriple Alliance—a powerful political union of the city-states of Mexico-Tenochtitlán, Tetzcoco and Tlacopán. As that alliance strengthened between 1428 and 1430 it reinforced the leadership of the Aztecs, making them the dominant Nahua group in a landmass...
The Aztecs believed that everything they did or created was for the gods. As a result a lot of their rituals were performed in order to please their gods. Sacrifices were important so the Aztecs both individually and throughout the community as they believed that human sacrifices were a ...
The Aztecs used a substance called teonanácatl, which means "flesh of the gods," that many believe was magic mushrooms. Along with peyote, morning glory seeds and other naturally occurring psychotropics, the mushrooms were used to induce a trance, produce visions and communicate with the gods...
Nobody knows when the first person looked at the cacao tree and decided to eat its seeds. The earliest record of chocolate comes from Mesoamerica, a region that stretches from central Mexico south through Costa Rica. The Mayans were drinking it by about 600 C.E., with theAztecsjoining in ...
. The taheebo tree is grown predominantly in Central and South America, but may also be cultivated in southern Florida. Pau d’Arco, also known as ipe roxo or sometimes lapacho, has been used for centuries by the Indio tribes of South America, as well as the ancient Incas and Aztecs....
Yet, though animals are a more humane substitute for reenactments of founding murders, many cultures persisted with human victims, Aztecs obviously, and the child sacrifices to Baal, Molech, and Ishtar in Middle Eastern pagan cultures, such as the Carthaginian practice of strangling child offerings...
Especially capital punishment clearly is just human sacrifice. By sacrificing these people the gods will make society a better place. Different in scale from the Aztecs, but the same aim. The ones calling for the long incarceration and cruel punishment are mostly not victims but people who neithe...
to serve it cold. The Aztecs were so skilled in their cacao beverage making that they even created a chocolate precursor to the cappuccino. By transferring the drink backward and forward from one receptacle to another, it created an airy foam, similar to the modern one we all know and love...