THE LAST TWO MILLION YEARS : Reader's Digest History of Man / by Reader's Digest Association.

Building a Floating Hydroponic Garden by Michael Sweat, Richard Tyson, Robert Hochmuth

“… The Aztecs and Incas amazed the Spanish conquistadors with their floating gardens, and now 500 years later you can impress your friends and neighbors with yours. …”
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La pratique des langues autochtones au Mexique, xvie-xxie siècles by Patrick Johansson Keraudren

“…This paper begins by defining the polysynthetic nature of the Aztecs’ language and then considers the specific modalities of language contact between Nahuatl and Spanish throughout history. …”
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‘Behind the doors of learning’: The transmission of racist and sexist discourses in a History classroom by Mark Wilmot, Devika Naidoo

“…The conventional Grade 10 topic, The conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish, was mediated through racist and sexist formal and informal discursive strategies such as the use of  teacher power to silence contestation of inaccurate statements; the use of metaphor, simile, and binary oppositions to convey prejudicial meanings, derogation, inferiorisation, ridicule, jokes,  disclaimers, and stereotyping that subsumed the historical topic being taught. …”
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‘Behind the doors of learning’: The transmission of racist and sexist discourses in a History classroom by Mark Wilmot, Devika Naidoo

“…The conventional Grade 10 topic, The conquest of the Aztecs by the Spanish, was mediated through racist and sexist formal and informal discursive strategies such as the use of  teacher power to silence contestation of inaccurate statements; the use of metaphor, simile, and binary oppositions to convey prejudicial meanings, derogation, inferiorisation, ridicule, jokes,  disclaimers, and stereotyping that subsumed the historical topic being taught. …”
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Geocriticism and the exploration of Mexico City-Tenochtitlán in Carlos Fuentes’ Where the Air is Clear by Pasuree Luesakul

“…On the other, the author depicts a total image of the megacity by highlighting its historical particularity: Mexico City was constructed by Spaniards precisely above the ruins of Tenochtitlán, the capital of the Aztecs. This article proposes a study of the Boom’s classic text with a novel approach from a geographical focus. …”
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Physiological, biochemical and genetic bases of amaranth (Amaranthus L.) breeding for food and feed purposes (a review) by A. B. Shcherban

“…This crop has a long history dating back to the days of the Aztecs and Incas, for whom it was one of the most important crops, along with corn. …”
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