Nov 19, 2022
Among the crops grown on chinampas were maize (corn), beans, squash, amaranth, tomatoes, chili peppers, and flowers. Maize was planted with digging stick huictli [wikt͡ɬi] with a wooden blade on one end.
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Among the crops grown on chinampas were maize (corn), beans, squash, amaranth, tomatoes, chili peppers, and flowers. Maize was planted with digging stick huictli [wikt͡ɬi] with a wooden blade on one end.
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Travel Bloggers: Deconstructing the Work of Ancient Explorers
Travel Bloggers: Deconstructing the Work of Ancient Explorers
“The Red Queen Theory states that ‘in order for things to stay the same, they must change.’ Today’s Travel Bloggers are that change.”
Human history started with the record of the written word; “wedge-shaped” writing, Cuneiform, in which symbols were silently pressed into wet clay tablets using a triangular-tipped stylus in Mesopotamia.
The craft soon evolved into the chinking sounds of words…
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Two words that mean the same thing that originated across an ocean from each other...and—as far as I can tell—before settlers stuck their noses into everything.
I wonder if that's more than a coincidence.