What did the Incas invent? Explain the events in the first meet between the Spanish and the Mayans? What kind of tools did the Mayans use? What holidays did the Mayans celebrate? What did Mayan men do? What did the Mayans build as shrines to their gods?
What impressive architecture did the Mayans build? What are the months of the Hijri calendar? What do the Olmec heads represent? Who built Chichen Itza? What Indigenous tribes are in El Salvador? What is the revised Julian calendar? What is the history of Hispanic Heritage Month?
What did the Mayans use honey for? Mayan use honey, tocure diseases of respiratory, digestive, circulatory, and immunological systems. It was also used as a remedy for maladies of the sensory organs, such as the skin, eyes, ears, mouth, tongue, gums, and teeth (Ocampo-Rosales, 2013) ....
Historians don't completely agree on how the Egyptians made the pyramids, or the size of the workforce required to build them, but there are many theories. Since the Egyptians did not have crane technology, some historians theorize the Egyptians used ramps. Others, however, claim this would ...
(bitter water), similar to a brew prepared by the Mayans. This hot chocolate beverage was popular with the upper class and was concocted out of cacao beans, corn flour, water and chilies. Xocoatl would serve as the foundation for a number of other hot chocolate drinks. The Spanish would ...
Jimmy Smits Would Love To Reprise Nero For Mayans M.C. Despite the fact that he had some messy skeletons in his closet, Nero was as close to an angelic presence as Sons of Anarchy had going for it, and Jimmy Smits' killer performances had everything to do with how memorable the charact...
tools. The blades were made from flakes of flint or obsidian, a type of volcanic glass. Flint could achieve an adequate cutting edge, while obsidian blades have a cutting edge sharper than that of surgical steel. The Mayans would use these sharp tools to cut through animal carcasses and ...
While elongated skulls arenot a new phenomenon, the Paracas skulls are particularly curious for three reasons: They are the largest elongated skulls found anywhere on Earth; they contain mysterious, unknown DNA; and they are structurally different from other elongated human skulls that have been foun...
the design did not provide enough stability, builders added a bend to the sides partway through construction. This design change led the pyramid to be called the Bent Pyramid. Finally, he succeeded in building a smooth-sided pyramid in Dahshur. Known as the Red Pyramid, the structure most ...
Both the Mayans and Aztecs fermented their cacao beans in the sun, which intensified the chocolate flavor we are familiar with and reduced some of the bitterness. They were sometimes toasted, too, to create a smokiness. The Mayans enjoyed their chocolate drinks hot, whereas their Aztec counterpa...