Obsidian

special given temples in Tenochtitlan,Texcoco and Tlacopan. They made many sacrifices but not all were fatal. Most of the time the victim’s heart gets ripped out and then burned. Sometimes even decapitation. There are 2 specific knives for sacrifice obsidian and flint. The sacrifices were stretched over rocks and skinned. They let the ladies skin the victim. The Aztecs lived a crazy lifestyle. They liked high valleys because of their great natural defense along with all the lakes. One of the…

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his plan through to the end, regardless of his diminishing condition. "The world would be better off without your family", Isaac briskly snarled. "And yours too", he responded. "But still, I can succeed", he staggered, elbowing backward toward the obsidian pyramid. Isaac tilted his head in amusement and curiosity at what the dying man was implying. "There's nothing you can do now".…

The study by Golitko et al. (2012) examined obsidian distribution—a material valuable to the Maya which can easily be traced to its source—in order to map trade routes during the Classic, Terminal Classic, and Postclassic periods. The results show that Classic trade relied mainly on inland networks…

The Maya were an advanced civilization that existed in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, northern Honduras, and El Salvador. They were positioned in one geographic area covering the Yucatan Peninsula; this smart choice of area indicated that the Maya were aware and looked to remained somewhat protected from invasion by other Mesoamerican groups that could come in from northern areas. Unlike some other indigenous populations of Mesoamerica, the Maya were not one united empire, but…

“Amidst the Epoch of Ash, Satyrium and Bahran miners ventured to Geren’has and staggered into an old grot that spoke to them in a hushed tone, a draught that seduced the Sun Elves and Ek’Zahlni into its drear shadows. And delved from the cave’s nethermost region did they discover an unsullied gold that whispered into the ears of moths. The miners revealed that, when in one’s hand, this ‘Moth Gold’ would alter its form into any thought the wielder concocted in his brain. At that moment, avarice…

¬¬ Have you ever wondered how civilizations managed to live during the height of their power? One of the greatest pre-conquest Mesoamerican cultures was the “Toltecs.” According to the dictionary of World History, it defines the Toltec civilization as: A northern Mexican tribe, who established a military state between the 10th and 12th centuries at Tula, 80 km north of modern Mexico City. They played an important part in the downfall of the city of Teotihuacán and were themselves overrun in the…

Civilizations in Africa and India during the Classical Period had some parallels, while still having their distinct differences. For example, Axum in Africa and Gupta in India were two empires during the classical period. The Axum Empire, located on the Horn of Africa in modern day Ethiopia, thrived in East Africa around ______, around the same time as the Gupta Empire in India (320-550 AD). Despite the distance between these two empires, the Axum Empire and the Gupta Empire had similar…

The collapse of societies and the events that lead to the fall of a society have always been of great interest in scientific study. The story of environmental distress causing collapse on the island of Rapa Nui has become very relevant to modern society in the past few decades. The fall of the Polynesian society on Rapa Nui is popularly attributed to the inhabitants destroying their environment (Middleton, 2012, p. 270). This account of events is used as a model in the public eye in an attempt…

social practices, and more than three hundred separate languages has evolved in North America before European conquest. Members of different groups trades goods over extremely long distances. Burial mounds in the Ohio Valley, for example, have yielded obsidian from western Wyoming, shells from Florida, mica quarried in North Carolina and Tennessee, and copper from near Lake Superior. Yet how ever advanced the Native America cultures of the south and Mississippi Valley may have been, both…