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Aztecs: United States
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Felipe R. Solís Olguín has made the provocative argument that the Aztecs' monumental sculpture was used to reinforce some of the ideologies of the Empire. Certain stances, postures, and attributes in the anthropomorphic sculptures, for example, are exclusive to each gender. These sculptures could then idealize the Aztec male and female according to the state ideology. This standing male sculpture has a smooth yet somewhat rigid expression. NMAH
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The Aztecs are believed to have come from the north. They spoke the Nahuan, or Nahuatl, language. This tongue belongs to the Uto-Aztecan linguistic stock. It is related to the languages of the Piman and Shoshonean tribes of the western United States.
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The Aztecs remain the most extensively documented of all Amerindian civilizations at the time of European contact in the 16th century. Spanish friars, soldiers, and historians and scholars of Indian or mixed descent left invaluable records of all aspects of life. These ethnohistoric sources, linked to modern archaeological inquiries and studies of ethnologists, linguists, historians, and art historians, portray the formation and flourishing of a complex imperial state.
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The Mayans and Aztecs loved cacao, the bean chocolate is made from, and used to crush it and mix it with chili peppers to create a spicy, bitter drink they believed gave them sacred wisdom and knowledge. Only in the past couple of years has chocolate mixed with chili peppers become available in the United States.
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