Sentences with phrase «on aztec»

Michael is an archaeologist who works on Aztec sites and Teotihuacan.

You don't have to brush up on Aztec history in order to enjoy «Chicome - Xochtli's Children» at Art League Houston, but it wouldn't hurt.

Moquay's «warriors» draw on Aztec pictographs, Mexico's Dia de los Muertos» skeleton Catrinas, and even the head of Pez candy dispenser.

Drawing on Aztec mythology and pictorial codices — as well as colonial histories — his works reframe language through the physical activation of these symbols.

If they contain the same number of pages, that means the museum offers 112 pages of ready - to - print classroom materials just on Aztec culture.

Mark Seymour — I hooked the PS2 up for some honorary rounds of Flame Tag on Aztec after reading an insightful but utterly dismal account of Free Radical's final days.

It's a fun and feminine twist on Aztec prints since they're usually done in warm earth tones.

Michael is an archaeologist who works on Aztec sites and Teotihuacan.

What were the effects of tribute extraction, population growth and agricultural intensification on the Aztec common people?

They exchanged craft goods produced in their homes for a variety of foreign goods, and most of this economic activity was accomplished outside imperial control and ignored by early writers on the Aztecs.

The site also offers three other age - group - specific packets on the Aztecs.

This slideshow can be used in the classroom for sessions on the Aztecs.

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One particular recruiter had succeeded in bringing in a stream of decent candidates, so Levi approached her about starting up on her own under Aztec's aegis.

Plot: The scientific crew on the spaceship Prometheus finds an alien life forces after excavating Ancient Mesopotamian, Aztec and Magdalenian caves that were discovered on a star map.

It will be looked on by future generations as we now look on the ancient Greeks and Romans who believed in their pantheon of gods, or the Druids, Aztecs or Maya.

To the Mother of Gods, Teotenantzin, a divinity much adored by the Aztecs long before the coming of the Europeans, obviously a goddess of fertility who dwelt of old on the precise hill where the Virgin of Guadalupe later appeared to Juan Diego, is addressed the following hymn:

That is why there are no surviving Aztec temples, and a Cathedral sit on the old foundations of one in Mexico City.

Glyphs on the codex indicate the tribute paid to the Aztecs by conquered towns just before the Spanish conquest; the towns on one tribute list (in what is now San Luis Potosí) gave 1,600 loads of dry chile to the imperial throne each year!

, the serfs or commoners; the collectors were Aztec officials, or later on, officials who worked for the Spanish.

The payers of the tribute were the macehuales, the serfs or commoners; the collectors were Aztec officials, or later on, officials who worked for the Spanish.

It said that Aztec data had shown that coffee capsules were the fastest growing coffee segment in Woolworths and Coles supermarkets and account for almost one of every three dollars spent on roast and ground coffee (everything except instant coffee) in those two supermarket groups» stores.

Here is a Cinco de Mayo Menu Made Paleo (with brand new Mojito Recipe) that might make the Aztecs raise their brows, but will keep you grain free followers on track!

To formulate this coffee drink super healthy I drew on an ancient Aztec recipe using a fresh red chili, vanilla bean, and warm cinnamon.

Huitlacoche is a fungus that grows on the ears of corn, and dates as far back as the ancient Aztecs who enjoyed this corn fungus as a part of their every day diet.

The Aztecs used them for endurance on their hunting excursions.

Legend has it that Montezuma's «curse» afflicts all non-indigenous persons who trespass on the lands formerly controlled by the Mexicas... the Aztec Emperor's «revenge» for the destruction of the Aztec empire by outsiders.

Mole poblano, originally called mole de olores («fragrant mole»), is the sauce traditionally served on special occasions such as Christmas that combines chiles and chocolate, a popular and revered food of the Aztecs.

It has been known, that amongst the Aztecs, a cake made with amaranth was placed on top of their tumbs.

Alessandra Ognibene - Lerouvillois, Chief Sustainability Officer at Prova, on the novel project: «The cocoa and vanilla synergy is an ancient love - story that dates back to the Aztecs, thousands of years ago.

Whether they knew it or not, the Aztecs were on to something big.

GOLF Mike Souchak, long - hitting ex-football star, put hot putter to work on final round, came from behind to beat Tommy Bolt 281 to 283, winning Caliente open and 3 - foot - high trophy topped by statue of Cuauhtémoc, last king of Aztecs, at Tijuana, Mexico.

He smiles at the notion that the Aztecs» philosophy is Wisconsin with better weather, heavy on the zone and power running game.

If you ask Aztecs offensive coordinator Jeff Horton, opposing defenses would be wise to stay on high alert now that Juwan Washington is the tip of the spear.

Washington watched the Aztecs play North Carolina on the road in 2014 and was riveted by the way Pumphrey took the fight to the 21st - ranked Tar Heels, running for 100 yards and two touchdowns in an eventual 31 — 27 North Carolina win.

The Aztecs went on to win the game, 20 — 17.

This year's Aztecs aren't much bigger — their tallest starter, senior DeShawn Stephens, is only 6» 8» — but with three D - I transfers and three promising freshmen, they are deep, especially on the perimeter.

The Aztecs scored on a hail mary touchdown after it was reviewed with no time left and decided to go for 2 for the win but couldn't convert.

Nevertheless, the public remains in favor of Kellen Moore and Co. bouncing back in a big way, with just over seven out of ten spread bets in favor of Boise posting a 19 point victory or more on the road against the Mountain West rival Aztecs.

The Aztec, the Bowie yearbook, had already gone to press by the time the Bears edged El Paso High, the Anglo school on the North Side, to win the district title, so beneath a team photo the editors had written, Good Luck to you, Team, and when these Aztecs reach you, may you have lived up to those early - season forecasts.

Bid - stealer alert in San Diego State vs. New Mexico for the Mountain West title after the Aztecs smacked Nevada on Friday night.

At 9:30 p.m. ET on Tuesday, Dec. 23, the Navy Midshipmen and San Diego State Aztecs clash in the Poinsettia Bowl in San Diego.

On Sept. 14, coming off the bench in the Aztecs» second game of the season, against Pacific, he ran for an NCAA single - game - record 386 yards in slightly more than three quarters.

Archaeologists realized the carving must be part of Templo Mayor, the Great Temple of the Aztec Empire, known to lie somewhere below the city center based on colonial - era accounts and previous limited digging projects.

Globe - hopping from ancient China to the Aztec Empire, from glamorous Parisian cafes to the mills of New England, Paper weaves culture with chemistry, and politics with pulpwood, as it chronicles world history through that wafer - thin product we write on.

AUSTIN — If you walked the cobblestone streets and bustling markets of 16th and 17th century Mexico City, you would see people born all over the world: Spanish settlers on their way to mass at the cathedral built atop Aztec ruins.

The Aztecs (properly called the Mexica), on the other hand, ran a Romanesque, centrally organized empire with a powerful origin story for their all - powerful central city.

Roughly half a million people lived in the densely populated basin at the heart of the Aztec kingdom, and they depended on the harvest.

«The ALMA data reveal that AzTEC - 3 is a very compact, highly disturbed galaxy that is bursting with new stars at close to its theoretically predicted maximum limit and is surrounded by a population of more normal, but also actively star - forming galaxies,» said Dominik Riechers, an astronomer and assistant professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and lead author on a paper published today (Nov. 10) in the Astrophysical Journal.

The early Spaniards built Christian churches on top of the remains of Aztec pyramids and placed their own towns over the Aztec cities.

We learned that vessels of the well - known type «Aztec III black - on - orange» were imported from at least four different workshop areas in the Valley of Mexico.