The Daily Life of the Aztecs: On the Eve of the Spanish Conquest. Translated from the French by Patrick O'BrianMacmillan, 1962 - 319 páginas This book by an international authority on Mexican archeology and sociology presents a vivid history of that profoundly religious Aztec warrior society - from its days as a primitive people, to the early sixteenth century - when, on the eve of the Spanish conquest, a powerful native government ruled with great organizational ability and restless energy. |
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Página 153
... plants , in the manner of those who lived before agriculture . The Aztecs may have reproached the Otomi with stooping so low as to eat unclean animals , such as snakes , rats and lizards , 106 but they themselves were obliged to seek ...
... plants , in the manner of those who lived before agriculture . The Aztecs may have reproached the Otomi with stooping so low as to eat unclean animals , such as snakes , rats and lizards , 106 but they themselves were obliged to seek ...
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... plants and minerals . They reduced fractures and they splinted broken limbs . 87 They were clever at bleeding patients with obsidian lancets . 88 They put softening plasters upon abscesses and finely - ground obsidian upon wounds ...
... plants and minerals . They reduced fractures and they splinted broken limbs . 87 They were clever at bleeding patients with obsidian lancets . 88 They put softening plasters upon abscesses and finely - ground obsidian upon wounds ...
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... plants : but it is equally certain that the Indians had been able to amass a considerable amount of positive experimental knowledge of the plants of their country , in the course of time . In this respect , if their medicine is compared ...
... plants : but it is equally certain that the Indians had been able to amass a considerable amount of positive experimental knowledge of the plants of their country , in the course of time . In this respect , if their medicine is compared ...
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SOCIETY AND THE STATE AT | 36 |
THE WORLD MAN AND TIME | 95 |
A MEXICANS | 120 |
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