Word: tencchtitl
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Borrowed by Director Roland J. McKinney of the Baltimore Museum of Art were 149 pieces representing virtually the entire range of Maya civilization from 1 A.D. to 1541 A.D. The Aztecs, whose beautiful city of Tencchtitlàn was razed by Hernando Cortés in 1521, were a late-flowering branch of this civilization. Accurate astronomy and mathematics, a written language, games with rubber balls were known to the Maya people. The truncated pyramids on which the Maya built their temples still stand in the jungles of Mexico and Yucatan. Like the jungle itself, their carvings were luxuriant with...
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