#ancient aztecs

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A New Tag:

#Ancient Women Can Be Powerful

I made this tag because Agrippina the Younger needs love and desperately. People always blame her for being power-hungry and evil. But she’s not any worse than the men who ruled Rome. Her brother, Caligula was so much worse and in my head, if Agrippina was a man, no one would care. They would be talking about how ‘Agrippina ruled well and was efficient at his job, but had a horrible son who destroyed his legacy.’ Agrippina the Younger did nothing that the emperors before her hadn’t already done. 

This horrible slandering of women in Ancient History from all parts of the world is getting on my nerves and I am going to do something about it. Ancient Women can want power and follow their desires without ancient AND Modern historians putting them down. 

This tag is for:

Agrippina the Younger

The Cleopatras (All 7 of them and descendants)

Livia Drusilla

AND Any Ancient Woman in any part of the world who was and is unduly slandered by Ancient or Modern Historians.

[aceidia]

Hello, can you help me find reliable info about Nahuatl, Aztlan and Ancient Mexico?

Hello, I am writing a story set in 65 AD/CE and I am wonder which cultures were in Mexico and how to properly write about that part of the world. The story is a global story and so I already have Rome all figured out, but I need to find some reliable sources and voices to tell me about Aztlan and Nahuatl. Also, I am not sure what cultures were around in my time frame because history books are not clear on it. I also want to note, that I don’t want people pointing to Spanish Info Sources right now. I want to hear from the people who actually LIVED there, not people who invaded and killed everyone.

I know that you might be like, “why do you want to write about X culture?” Because it’s part of my story and I want to respectfully write about Ancient Mexica.

Thank you so much.

[katiecaro]

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Agave's First Spirit

Its origin dates back to ancient Aztec times.

Of the 3 alcoholic drinks made today from Pulque was the first. Its origin dates back to ancient Aztec times.

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Hops are Old

There has been a lot of talk about Hops thanks to the craft beer boom. They are a critically important ingredient in making modern beer, and the chances are that you have had a friend or fifteen drone on about them.

In a nutshell: without Hops all beer would be unpalatably sweet, so every beer from Bud Light to the hopiest of IPAs involves Hops. As we have touched on prior: before using Hops…

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401 Booze Gods

Most (if not all) ancient cultures appointed a diety or two to oversee alcohol-related matters—which often coincided with fertility, as well. The Ancient Aztecs however, deployed at least 401 booze-gods.

It started with Mayahuel: the goddess of maguey (agave) and pulque…and fertility. Next, she wound up mothering 400 rabbit gods of pulque and intoxication. While only a few of them had names and…

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A Peculiar Study

Coprolite analysis is the examination of fossilized feces.​

Coprolite analysis shows archeologists that the Aztecs were making an Agave Wine 2,000 years ago. Coprolite analysis is the examination of fossilized feces.​

This scientific process demonstrates that 2 millennia back Mesoamericans were roasting the hearts of agave plants and not only eating them, but also creating a primitive and immature wine of sorts called Pulque.

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