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Long-Distance Traders Known As The Pochteca Also Served As The Aztec Empire's Spies, Gathering Intel On Communities In Other Lands
The Aztecs were highly advanced in agriculture and trade, largely thanks to an elite group of long-distance merchants and traders called the Pochteca. They provided the Aztec capital and other ...
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Artist reconstruction of the life of CHO001, a long-distance trader (IMAGE)
Caption Artist reconstruction of the life of CHO001, a long-distance trader analyzed in this study who suffered from malaria and was buried at the site of Chokhopani, Nepal, ca 800 BCE. The ...
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The African Scramble
In the 1850s the Imbangla of Kasanje lost their monopoly as long distance traders doing business with Ambaquista and Ovimbundu. Shambaa (in what is now north east of modern Tanzania) broke up in ...