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Pochteca (singular pochtecatl) were professional, long-distance
traveling merchants in the
Aztec Empire. The
trade or
commerce was
referred to as pochtecayotl...
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highest officials of the
pochteca were the
pochteca tlatoque. The
pochteca tlatoque were the
elder of the
pochteca, and were no
longer travelers...
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recipient to tribute) and the
hereditary class of
merchants known as
pochteca.
These pochteca had
various gradations of
ranks which granted them
certain trading...
- Finally, the
pochteca were
merchants who
traveled all of
Mesoamerica trading. The
membership of this
class was
based on heredity.
Pochteca could become...
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where people purchased their daily needs were
known as
tianguis while pochteca referred to long-distance,
professional merchants traders who obtained...
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prepared using unripe green walnuts Peanut liqueur Peanut Lolita (peanut)
Pochteca Almond Liqueur Ratafia (brandy
flavored with almonds, fruit, or
fruit kernels;...
- may have
originally been a
representation of
Aztec traders,
known as
pochtecas, who may have
traveled to this
region from
northern Mesoamerica. These...
- merchants,
formal amb****adors, messengers, and spies. Merchants,
called pochteca (singular: pochtecatl), were
perhaps the most
valued source of intelligence...
- century.
During this campaign,
which lasted 4 years, a
group of
Mexica pochteca merchants were put
under siege by the
enemy forces. This was important...
- the
phenomenon of “Black Christ”
images follows known Aztec merchant (
pochteca) routes. It is
possible that
these images were a
substitution for the deity...
