OLMEC
Who were the people who really deserve to be called the first Americans? The first great Rulers built 17 colossal, 2 ton quarried Olmec heads have been discovered in various locations associated with the ancient Olmec civilisations leaders. Monuments that the whole world would remember their glory. Olmec, The most famous of the Pre-Columbian civilizations in Mexico, the Aztecs and the Maya, were themselves preceded by a large and powerful civilization that influenced their way of life. The Olmecs were the first high civilization to develop in Mesoamerica (the fertile region that runs through the south of Mexico and into Central America) from 1200 to 100 BC.
We have returned to reestablish that Glory as The Native tribe of the Lenápe Muúrs at The City of Amexum.
SPANIARDS
This great glory changed when the Spaniards landed in the Americas. The factual truth of our great glory was commented on by Hernan Cortes and Friar Sahugun. The last Empire was lead by Montezuma, or ‘Angry Like A Lord’, last fully independent ruler of the Aztec empire before the civilization’s collapse at the hands of the Spanish in the early 16th century CE. Taking the position of tlatoani, meaning ‘speaker’, in 1502 CE he would rule as an absolute monarch until 1520 CE, during which time he expanded the empire and was considered a god for his people and a manifestation and of the sun.
MONTEZUMA
First-hand physical description of Montezuma by Bernal Diaz del Castillo, who saw him in 1519 CE:
Montezuma about 40 years old, of good height and well-proportioned, slender and spare of flesh, not very swarthy(dark), but of the natural colour and shade of an Indian. He did not wear his hair long, but so as just to cover his ears, his scanty black beard was well-shaped and thin. His face was somewhat long, but cheerful, and he had good eyes and showed in his appearance and manner both tenderness and, when necessary, gravity. (Townsend, 19)
Hernan Cortes wrote explicitly: Montezuma certainly lived like a king. His huge palace at the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan had hanging gardens, a ten-room aviary with fresh and salt-water pools, and even a private zoo with jaguars, eagles, pumas, amongst hundreds of other exotic animals. Montezuma was cared for by 3,000 attendants and, according to Bernal Diáz, a typical royal meal included hundreds of specially made dishes which included turkey, venison, duck, pigeon, rabbit, quail, fish and boar, all served on finely decorated and especially delicate Cholula pottery. We are also told that the king ate alone and behind a gilded screen, entertained by jugglers and acrobats.
MONTEZUMA'S AZTEC EMPIRE
Montezuma Province is in the form of a circle, surrounded on all sides by lofty and rugged mountains'; including two lakes, One of these lakes contains fresh water, the larger of the two, salt water. Trade is carried on between the cities and other settlements on the lakes in canoes without the necessity of traveling by land. Its streets, the principal ones, are very wide and straight; and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes. All the streets at intervals have openings, through which the water flows, crossing from one street to another; and at these openings, some of which are very wide, there are also very wide bridges, composed of large pieces of timber, of great strength and well put together; on many of these bridges ten horses can go abreast.
Commerce
This city has many public squares, in which are situated the markets and other places for buying and selling. One square surrounded by porticoes, where are daily assembled more than sixty thousand souls, engaged in buying and selling all kinds of merchandise that their world affords, embracing the necessaries of life, as for instance articles of food, as well as jewels of gold and silver, lead, brass, copper, tin, precious stones, bones, shells, snails, and feathers. There are also exposed for sale wrought and unwrought stone, bricks burnt and unburnt, timber hewn and unhewn, of different sorts. There is a street where every variety of birds in the country are sold, as fowls, partridges, quails, wild ducks... There is also an herb street, where may be obtained all sorts of roots and A league was the distance a person could walk in one hour, about 3 miles.
Ships
A sailing ship with two masts.
Shops
A roofed structured supported by columns, serving as a porch entrance to a building or extending as a colonnade. There are apothecaries’shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers’shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restauranteurs, that furnish food and drink.
Produce
There are all kinds of green vegetables, especially onions, leeks, garlic, watercresses, nasturtium, borage, sorrel,artichokes, and golden thistle; fruits also of numerous descriptions, amongst which are cherries and plums, similar to those in Spain; maize or Indian corn, in the grain and in the form of bread, preferred in the grain for its flavor to that of the other, great quantities of fish, fresh, salt, cooked and uncooked; the eggs of hens, geese, and of all the other birds I have mentioned, in great abundance, and cakes made of eggs; honey and wax from bees, and from the stalks of maize, which are as sweet as the sugar-cane; honey is also extracted from the plant called maguey, which is superior to sweet or new wine; from the same plant they extract sugar and wine, which they also sell.
Fineries
Different kinds of cotton thread of all colors in are exposed for sale in one quarter of the market, which has the appearance of the silk-market at Granada, although the former is supplied more abundantly. Painters’colors, as numerous as can be found in Spain, and as fine shades; deerskins dressed and undressed, dyed different colors;earthen-ware of a large size and excellent quality; large and small jars, jugs, pots, bricks, endless variety of vessels, all made of fine clay, and all or most of them glazed and painted; Wood and coal are seen in abundance, and braisers of earthen-ware for burning coals; mats of various kinds for beds, others of a lighter sort for seats, and for halls and bedrooms. Finally, everything that can be found throughout the whole country is sold in the markets, comprising articles so numerous their names are not retained in my memory, or are unknown to me, I shall not attempt to enumerate them. Every merchandise is sold in a particular street or quarter assigned to it exclusively, and thus the best order is preserved.
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