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Transcription: [01:25:04]
{SPEAKER name="Gordon Ekholm"}
Actually however, there are very few items in this list of objects brought into Mexico that are of a perishable, that are of a non-perishable nature.
[01:25:16]
There are few gold, and a few jade objects, there's a little bit of pottery - mainly for carrying materials such as honey. And there's one indication in the tribute records of the demand by the Aztec of a certain form of yellow pottery from the West.
[01:25:40]
Now looking at Aztec history, through only archeology, if we had no records, we would have no indication of the amount of contact that occurred between these various areas, or strayed groups, people going and coming, ambassadors and so on, soldiers and so on, that would be necessary to transport, arrange for all these materials and so on.
[01:26:14]
The same is true of, or examples of this kind can be found in other parts of the world.
[01:26:24]
I don't know the history of the Near East particularly well, but I'm always struck by the, by the important lack of, of trade items between the several cultural centers in the Near East. Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia and so on.
[01:26:57]
We know historically that these peoples were in contact. We know of, of wars that were conducted between these. We know of prisoners of -
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