Where were the many millions of pesos minted in Mexico going? After , minted money was one of Mexico's biggest exports, along with indigenous agricultural products like textile dyes, cacao, and vanilla. The gold and, especially, silver pesos that originated in Mexico's mines were sent to Spain to pay for manufactured goods produced in countries like England, France, Holland, and later, China. These imports were expensive — only the wealthier Spanish colonists and the indigenous aristocracy could afford them.
Their wealth was based in part on the tributes paid by indigenous men and women and by the increasingly large population of free people of African descent.
The history of all these peoples intersected and blended during a centuries-long process of dramatic social reorganization and economic exploitation that imposed an often violent or coercive exchange of language, labor, technology, and genes. Nominate this object for photography. See our privacy policy. Collections Search Search for Show only items with images. Show only items with no use restrictions. Sign up for Monthly E-newsletter.
Search Google Appliance Enter the terms you wish to search for. In spite of their primitive ways and farming tools, Aztec farmers produced enough food to supply not only their own needs, but also those of the entire city, and this played a pivotal role in the economy and trade of the Aztec civilisations. Aside from crops, the Aztecs market offers various goods and services, including everything you can think of. Raw materials, finished products, jewellery, wood and even medicine could be bought in this one stop shop, and the main gathering ground for the Aztecs.
Their method of exchange was through tribute and trade. They bartered using different currencies, but the economy in Aztec life was essentially driven by this marketplace, the heart of the Aztec society. The Aztecs farmed the chinampas where were shallow lakes filled with mud or wet soil formed into a square shape. These tiny mounds of land were very fertile making it conducive for growing crops.
Their consistency made it possible for the Aztecs, who at that time did not have complicated tools, to make use of just sticks to turn the soil. To this day these floating gardens exist still in Mexico City, and at the time formed the backbone of the Aztec farming system. Based on Religion, the Aztecs had specific gods that they worshipped related to farming. Centeotl was the corn god, while Tlaloc was their rain and fertility god. Huitzilopochtli, the god of war and sun required human blood and hearts so that the sun would rise each morning, which is of course essential to farming.
Therefore the Aztecs held many religious ceremonies were important to celebrate harvesting and planting, so that the Aztecs could ensure fertility from the gods. Various items the ancient Aztecs would trade. Trade was extremely important and so the traders were thought of highly in Aztec society. They were a class below the nobles but above the commoners and this special subgroup was mostly inherited. Merchants who travel far beyond the Aztec city were called pochteca, and they ruled the markets during the Aztec empire due to their far flung artifacts and goods which could not be obtained within the confines of the Aztec city otherwise.
This particular example is a type is generally found inthe Oaxaca province of Mexico and probably dates to the 14th to 15th century. Size : mm long x mm wide x 1. Condition : Intact but the tip of one arm has been bent and straightened.
What looks like a lighter bluish area on the end is just a figment of un-even lighting at the time I imaged this object. Opitz, page center he does not have a numbering system.
In recent years these larger Aztec Hoe money has become difficult to find, but we recently purchases a old collection of them with several types, which we will be adding in the near future.
Please note that come countries have import restrictions on these items, and it is up to you to be sure you can get it into your country.
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