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THE AZTECS AND THE MAYANS
THE MAYANS LIVED IN SOUTHERN MEXICO AND NORTHERN GUATEMALA IN CENTRAL AMERICA FROM ABOUT 2000 BC TO 900 AD.
THEY BUILT LARGE TEMPLES IN THE MIDDLE OF THEIR CITIES, WHERE THE EMPEROR WOULD LIVE. THESE TEMPLES WERE ALSO BUILT TO HONOUR THE MANY GODS THEY BELIEVED IN.
THE TEMPLE RUN DESIGN WAS ACTUALLY INSPIRED BY THE MAYAN TEMPLES.
THE MAYANS AND CACAO
THE MAYANS USED CACAO AS A CURRENCY
One small rabbit 1 bean One Turkey Egg 3 beans A Large Tomato 2 beans A Bunch of Bananas 1 bean One Turkey 4 beans A newly picked avocado 5 beans Five Chillis 30 beans Some pine bark(firewood) 100 beans
THERE IS EVEN RECORDS OF COUNTERFEIT BEANS BEING MADE OUT OF CLAY TO PASS ASS CURRENCY
Only the richest people made their cacao beans into a drink. Why do you think this was?
In the 12th century the Aztecs went to war and took over the Maya tribes.
THE AZTECS BUILT A SUPERCITY CALLED TECHNOCTITLAN
ONLY PROBLEM WAS…
NO CACAO TREES
THEY HAD TO HAVE IT BROUGHT UP FROM THE FORESTS. THE EMPERORS ALWAYS MADE SURE TO KEEP A BIG STORE OF CACAO
SOME EMPERORS EVEN SMOKED CACAO
WHEN COLUMBUS CAME LOOKING FOR GOLD HE ALMOST DISCOVERED CACAO, BUT IN HIS DESPERATION FOR GOLD HE IGNORED IT.
FERDINAND COLUMBUS; CHRISTOPHER’S SON WROTE THIS IN HIS DIARY…
They were taking over a boat when somebody spilled some cacao, and the natives ran for the beans
“as if an eye had fallen from their heads”
Because they were so wrapped up in looking for Gold Columbus and his son completely overlooked the importance of the Cacao Bean