>$33,000 for an official portrait
cheaper than $65,000 hot dogs
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are you familiar with Turkey's national sport?
he was stabbed five times, including twice in the back of his legs, once in the face and a fatal wound to the chest
>303 gold bars
After the Great Flood and the Creation, Viracocha sent his sons to visit the tribes to the northeast and northwest to determine if they still obeyed his commandments. Viracocha traveled North. During their journey, Imaymana and Tocapo gave names to all the trees, flowers, fruits, and herbs. They also taught the tribes which of these were edible, which had medicinal properties, and which were poisonous. Eventually, Viracocha, Tocapo and Imahmana arrived at Cusco (in modern-day Peru) and the Pacific seacoast, where they walked away across the water until they disappeared.
men with beards were frequently depicted by the Peruvian Moche culture in its famous pottery, long before the arrival of the Spanish
"Some of the men had thick beards and were thought to look more in appearance like Spanish men than native Americans"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Columbian_transoceanic_contact_theories
>Moche culture
human sacrifice played a significant part in Moche religious practices
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moche_culture#Religion
The Moche may have also held and tortured the victims for several weeks before sacrificing them, with the intent of deliberately drawing blood. Some parts of the victim may have been eaten as well in ritual cannibalism.
the Olmec civilization came into existence with the help of Chinese refugees
According to Musa's own account, his predecessor as Mansa of Mali launched two expeditions to explore the Atlantic Ocean (200 ships for the first exploratory mission, and 2,000 ships for the second). The Mansa led the second expedition himself and appointed Musa as his deputy to rule the empire until he returned. When he did not return, Musa was crowned as mansa himself, marking a transfer of the line of succession from the descendants of Sunjata to the descendants of his brother Abu Bakr.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_voyage_of_the_predecessor_of_Mansa_Musa
We belong to a house which hands on the kingship by inheritance. The king who was my predecessor did not believe that it was impossible to discover the furthest limit of the Atlantic Ocean and wished vehemently to do so. So he equipped 200 ships filled with men and the same number equipped with gold, water, and provisions enough to last them for years, and said to the man deputed to lead them: "Do not return until you reach the end of it or your provisions and water give out." They departed and a long time passed before anyone came back. Then one ship returned and we asked the captain what news they brought. He said: "Yes, O Sultan, we traveled for a long time until there appeared in the open sea [as it were] a river with a powerful current. Mine was the last of those ships. The [other] ships went on ahead but when they reached that place they did not return and no more was seen of them and we do not know what became of them. As for me, I went about at once and did not enter that river." But the sultan disbelieved him. Then that sultan got ready 2,000 ships, 1,000 for himself and the men whom he took with him and 1,000 for water and provisions. He left me to deputize for him and embarked on the Atlantic Ocean with his men. That was the last we saw of him and all those who were with him, and so I became king in my own right.
The Canary Current flows from West Africa to the Americas, which would have facilitated travel from Africa to the Americas but prevented it in the opposite direction.
did many Africans practice slavery before the Arabs institutionalized it?
the native inhabitants of the Caribbean island of Hispaniola claim that "there had come to Española from the south and south-east, a black people who have the tops of their spears made of a metal which they call guanín … from which it was found that of 32 parts: 18 were gold, 6 were silver, and 8 copper."
the limp depiction of the were-jaguar baby denotes child sacrifice