The Aztecs: The Discovery Of Latin America

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From giant heads in the middle of nowhere, to large boats, sailing across the ocean; the development of technology over the time frame of the conquering and exploration of Latin America by the Spaniards was a huge change, which was affected mostly by Christopher Columbus, a man who wanted to go to India, but instead went to America by accident. The people that lived in Latin America before he came, were composed of several groups, some large, some small. These groups include the Olmec, Teotihuacan, Maya, Zapotec, Mixtec, Huastec, Purepecha, Aztec, Mixe, and Totonac. These people, in later years, had new technology, that a few years earlier, they hadn’t even heard of. The Aztec, were one of the main, and one of the most well known pre-columbian

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