The western Pueblo tribes included theHopi(Uto-Aztecan; see also Hopi language), Hano (Tanoan), Zuni (Penutian), and Acoma and Laguna (Keresan). The Navajo and the closely related Apache spoke Athabaskan languages. The Navajo lived on the Colorado Plateau near the Hopi villages. Who settled...
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Scientists tmce the origin of the word "chocolate" to the Aztec(阿兹特克人的)word"xocoa!". It referred to a bitter drink made from cacao beans. Historians think that chocolate has been around for 2000 years or longer. It's hard to know when chocolate was first consumed, but it's ...
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Except for that, we have almost no ide a of who founded the city.It seems to have been founded around 200 BC, about 1,000 years before the Aztec period. The city 56 (cover) by many pyramids now. The largest one,the Pyramid of the Sun, is the 57 (three) largest in the world....
Journey back to ancient Egypt to see the world-famous Rosetta Stone with its ancient hieroglyphs, explore Mexico’s Aztec artefacts or delve in the cultural wonder of Africa. 60 free galleries await you at the British Museum, which dates back to 1759. Located in Bloomsbury in London’s West...
The oldest known pyramid in Egypt was built around 2630 B.C. at Saqqara, for thethird dynasty's King Djoser. Why were the pyramids of Egypt built? Pyramids werebuilt for religious purposes. The Egyptians were one of the first civilizations to believe in an afterlife. They believed that a ...
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 ...
Once it is dark, place the mirror in the middle of the room, when you sit in front of it, your back should be to the door, never the window. Put a circle of salt around the mirror, large enough for you to sit comfortably within. You should then exit the circle, closing it behind...
For several centuries in pre-modern Latin America, cacao beans were considered valuable enough to use as currency. 100 beans could purchase a good turkey hen, according to a 16th-century Aztec document. Sweetened chocolate didn’t appear until Europeans discovered the Americas and sampled (品尝) ...