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... The capital city of the Aztec was Tenochtitlán. It was built on islands in Lake Texcoco. The lake was later drained, and today the land is part of Mexico City. Tenochtitlán reflected the power and wealth of the empire. It had gleaming white palaces and temples on top of pyramids. City officials live ...
... The capital city of the Aztec was Tenochtitlán. It was built on islands in Lake Texcoco. The lake was later drained, and today the land is part of Mexico City. Tenochtitlán reflected the power and wealth of the empire. It had gleaming white palaces and temples on top of pyramids. City officials live ...
Section 6-1: Civilization of Mesoamerica
... to 750 A.D. and that influenced the culture of later Mesoamerican peoples; it was wellplanned, with wide roads, massive temples, and large apartment buildings to house a population of about 200,000. This civilization fell to invaders, but its culture survived and influenced later people of Mesoameri ...
... to 750 A.D. and that influenced the culture of later Mesoamerican peoples; it was wellplanned, with wide roads, massive temples, and large apartment buildings to house a population of about 200,000. This civilization fell to invaders, but its culture survived and influenced later people of Mesoameri ...
Maya cuisine
Ancient Maya cuisine was varied and extensive. Many different types of resources were consumed, including maritime, flora, and faunal material, and food was obtained or produced through a host of strategies, such as hunting, foraging, and large-scale agricultural production. Plant domestication focused on several core foods, the most important of which was maize.Much of the Maya food supply was grown in forest gardens, known as pet kot. The system takes its name from the low wall of stones (pet meaning ""circular"" and kot ""wall of loose stones"") that characteristically surrounds the gardens.The Maya adopted a number of adaptive techniques that, if necessary, allowed for the clear-cutting of land and re-infused the soil with nutrients. Among these was slash-and-burn, or swidden, agriculture, a technique that cleared and temporarily fertilized the area. For example, the introduction of ash into the soil raises the soil’s pH, which in turn raises the content of a variety of nutrients, especially phosphorus, for a short period of time of around two years. However, the soil will not remain suitable for planting for as many as ten years. This technique, common throughout the Maya area, is still practiced today in the Maya region. Complementing swidden techniques were crop rotation and farming, employed to maintain soil viability and increase the variety of crops.