For several centuries in Latin America, cacao beans were valuable enough to use as currency. According to a 16th-century Aztec document, people could trade one bean for a tamale (玉米粉蒸肉). And 100 beans could buy a good turkey hen.Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had...
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For several centuries in Latin America, cacao beans were valuable enough to use as currency. According to a 16th-century Aztec document, people could trade one bean for a tamale (玉米粉蒸肉). And 100 beans could buy a good turkey hen.Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had...
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aAround the world stock markets have fallen, large financial institutions have collapsed or been bought out, and governments in even the wealthiest nations have had to come up with rescue packages to bail out their financial systems 在世界范围内股市下落了,大财政机关崩溃了或被收买,并且政府在最...
It is unlikely that Columbus brought any of these beans back to Spain and it was not until about 25 years later that Cortez grasped the commercial possibilities when he found the Aztecs using the beans to make the royal drink “chocolatl”. The Spanish, in general, were not fond of the ...
Woodblock printing was invented around the year 220CE in China. Inventors decided carving out from wood and using them as stamps was much more efficient than writing. In the 5th century CE, Arab Muslims were also printing texts, mainly passages from the Qur'an which is the Muslim version of...
“discovered” America thousands of years earlier and populated both North and South America with different tribes that were much later called American Indians, Incans, Aztecs and many more. The idea that a land is only discovered when relatively modern-day Europeans find it is obviously incorrect...
“rule” of the Spaniards, and the written pleas for the Spanish monarchs to enact laws to protect the natives went through, but were ignored by new Spanish royalty years later. This was the case for the mining of the silver mines, because the Spanish ruler (at the time of the discovery...
Forseveral centuries in Latin America, cacao beans were valuable enough to use as currency. According to a 16th-centuryAztec document, people could trade one bean for a tamale(玉米粉蒸肉). And 100 beans could buy a good turkey hen.Both the Mayans and Aztecs believed the cacao bean had ...