Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance traveling merchants in the Aztec Empire. The trade or commerce was referred to as pochtecayotl...
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The highest officials of the pochteca were the pochteca tlatoque. The pochteca tlatoque were the elder of the pochteca, and were no longer travelers...
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recipient to tribute) and the hereditary class of merchants known as pochteca. These pochteca had various gradations of ranks which granted them certain trading...
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Finally, the pochteca were merchants who traveled all of Mesoamerica trading. The membership of this class was based on heredity. Pochteca could become...
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where people purchased their daily needs were known as tianguis while pochteca referred to long-distance, professional merchants traders who obtained...
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may have originally been a representation of Aztec traders, known as pochtecas, who may have traveled to this region from northern Mesoamerica. These...
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prepared using unripe green walnuts Peanut liqueur Peanut Lolita (peanut) Pochteca Almond Liqueur Ratafia (brandy flavored with almonds, fruit, or fruit kernels;...
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merchants, formal ambassadors, messengers, and spies. Merchants, called pochteca (singular: pochtecatl), were perhaps the most valued source of intelligence...
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at their enthronement. The deity was also one of the patron gods of the pochteca merchant class. Stone sculptures of Xiuhtecuhtli were ritually buried as...
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by the Aztecs under Moctezuma I, ostensibly to avenge the deaths of 160 pochteca. Different sources give the year in which this occurred as 1453, 1458,...
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century. During this campaign, which lasted 4 years, a group of Mexica pochteca merchants were put under siege by the enemy forces. This was important...
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deciphered, were used by tlacuilos (scribes), macehuallis (peasants), and pochtecas (merchants). The Aztec writing system derives from writing systems used...
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next who managed the land owned by the emperor. Then the warriors, the pochteca (merchants), commoners and farmers. Then the lowest level of the hierarchy...
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governed their reigns. The Merchants. About long-distance elite merchants, pochteca, who expanded trade, reconnoitered new areas to conquer, and served as...
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part in the larger rituals of the community. For example, the class of Pochteca merchants were involved in the feast Tlaxochimaco, where the merchant deity...
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comes from the Nahuatl language and means "place of great merchants" (see pochteca). On December 4, 2013, a cobalt-60 radioactive source stolen from a truck...
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the theory that Casas Grandes was a backwater until about 1200 CE when pochteca (traders) from the Aztec empire or other Mesoamerican states to the south...
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professional merchants who traveled from market to market seeking profits. The pochteca were specialized long-distance merchants organized into exclusive guilds...
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people purchased their daily necessities were known as tianguis, while a pochteca was a professional merchant who travelled long distances to obtain rare...
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the royal house, lords, nobility, and long-distance traders known as the pochteca. At banquets, chocolate was served as a digestif at the end. Soldiers in...
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written Zapochteca or Zaapochteca and comes from "za / zaa" (cloud) and "pochteca" (merchant). Although several theories of the origin of the Zapotec peoples...
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the phenomenon of “Black Christ” images follows known Aztec merchant (pochteca) routes. It is possible that these images were a substitution for the deity...
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slaves), and their children were born free. Traveling merchants called pochteca were a small, but important class as they not only facilitated commerce...
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operated in much of central Mexico. Likewise, it appears that the wealthy pochteca (merchant class) and military orders became more powerful than was apparently...
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goods which had previously reached Ming China through intermediaries. Pochteca were the merchants of the Aztec Empire (1426–1521) who carried trade goods...
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ARA 467 Consumer Discretionary Household Durables Homebuilding Grupo Pochteca, S.A.B. de C.V. POCHTECB 454 Industrials Trading Companies & Distributors...
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Religious calendar from the Codex Féjervary-Mayer (Codex Pochteca)....
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palaces. Aztecs used Pochtecas, people in charge of commerce, as spies and diplomats, and had diplomatic immunity. Along with the pochteca, before a battle...
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During the Aztec period, an elite group of long-distance merchants, the pochteca functioned as traders in high value goods as well as scouts to identify...
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(India) Farmers' markets History of marketing Market (place) Merchant Pochteca Retail Wet market#Mexico Orihuela, Gabriel (February 12, 2001). "El Comercio...
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