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What are the archaeological evidence for the Aztec's use of entheogens?
A recent Skeptics question, Was honey used preserve psychoactive mushrooms in the ancient past?, caught my attention and I came upon the Wikipedia article on the Aztec use of entheogens. The article ...
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Did Native Americans ever fight the indigenous people living in Mexico before Europeans arrived?
From elementary school, my history teacher used to talk about the fighting between native American tribes. Then, later in the semester, we would briefly discuss the rise of Aztecs, Olmecs, Mayans, ...
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How did the Mayans get cacao?
Did the Mayans have plantations of cacao trees, or did they simply gather the fruit from cacao trees in the wild?
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Is there any documentation that indicates the Aztecs were as violent as they are made out?
The iconography of the Aztecs lead us to believe that they were an especially blood-thirsty culture. But consider the scenario where there was some major catastrophe in the USA, reducing the ...
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Which days in the Mayan calendar were most auspicious for performing sacrifices?
In Classic Mayan civilization, human sacrifices were performed. I've read that there were days that were more and less auspicious for sacrifices, but I haven't been able to find out which days those ...
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Did the Mayans view the gods as antagonistic to humanity?
How did the precolonial Maya view their gods' relationship to mankind, specifically: were they considered benevolent, neutral, or antagonistic? I've seen a number of hints that they may have ...
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Was Classic Mayan civilization really so gruesome?
(I don't really know how to ask this question, so help in editing it to better fit the StackExchange format would be quite welcome.)
From what I can tell, Classical Mayan civilization was ...
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What really happened to the Maya civilization?
Are there any reliable sources that explain the "disappearance" of the Maya? I am highly skeptical about the following account as it states that the cities were destroyed by the war when in actual ...
