civilization

Without fire, metalworking would be impossible, preventing the rise of any technological civilization.

On the borderlands of early civilizations, people who considered one another alien met in moments of trade, warfare or simple human curiosity.

To many it seemed, as President Franklin Roosevelt said in 1933 during his first inaugural address, that “the money changers have fled from their high seats in the temple of our civilization.”

Why focus on the Aztecs out of the numerous civilizations that existed in the territory that now constitutes Mexico?

He called it, “a big, big day, a beautiful day, potentially one of the great days ever in civilization.”