Aztecs

The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl.

Nahuatl was the language of the Aztecs.

Before the Spanish conquest, the Aztecs got up to eighty percent of their nourishment from amaranth grains.

Mexicans are descended from the Aztecs, Peruvians from the Incas, and Argentinians from the boats.

The Spanish massacred the Aztecs.

The Aztecs and the Incas developed sophisticated civilizations.

I label Rod, a bicyclist at the Lulu Island café, a spiritual "eclectic," this morning on the 22nd of August of 2022. He is a slim older white man. He talks to me, whilst I munch on salted vinegar potato chips with iced black tea, beside a favourite Spanish-language sci-fi book, Crónicas de Majipur, by Robert Silverberg. Rod believes that there is "one God," but I say that God could be either singular or plural, as number is a limitation on God. I wonder if he is a "pantheist" or "panpsychist," who believes that there is, at some level, the divine or the mind, respectively, in everybody and everything, even a "pillow." The terminology excites him. He shows me a video describing the complex Aztec calendar on his smartphone. The presentation is full of Aztec, aka Nahuatl, words, which he mistakes for "Mayan." I tell him that in ancient Mexico, the Aztecs were more like the Japanese, whilst the Maya were more like the Chinese. I utter some words presented in Nahuatl. He does not look too surprised that I know how to pronounce. We both have visited Mexico before.

Tomatoes were cultivated by the Aztecs in current-day Mexico, and the Spaniards took them to Europe.

The Aztecs made extremely sharp knives and weapons from obsidian.

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