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In those thousands of years of our civilizations, we can be proud to say that we made discoveries and developments in mathematics (concept of zero and point placement), astronomy (truer calculations of the movements of the stars, planets, moon, and occurrences of eclipses), medicine (real doctors, surgeons, gynecologists, pharmacists, hospitals, and physical therapists), and a calendar system. These discoveries and developments were superior to anything that Europe had at the time of their invasion of our land. We were collective first class thinkers, inventors, philosophers, and visionaries in our cities and in our tribal areas.
Most of our people, and the rest of the world, do not know of any of these great accomplishments of Anahuac. Our people don't know that we, the people of Anahuac, had built three cities (that still existed in 1519) that were larger than Europe's largest city of that time, London (population 80,000). We had Tenochtitlan with 350,000 inhabitants, Tlaxcalla with 100,000 inhabitants, and Cholula with 100,000 inhabitants (read DAILY LIFE OF THE AZTECS by Jacques Soustelle).
We had dozens of other large cities and thousands of large towns. Contrary to popular ignorant belief, only a small minority of our populations were actually living in nomadic tribal societies. The majority of our people were living in cities, towns, and villages.
We had independently developed, engineering, architecture, commerce, philosophies, and all of the civilized arts---all of this began long before 2300 B.C.
We were the first people in the history of humanity to have mandatory education for males and females, of all classes...
The following is a list of inventions, accomplishments, and contributions that originated and that were developed in the "Western Hemisphere" by Nican Tlaca people for thousands of years. This list is not complete:
-Creators of the the world's largest city three separate times: Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, and Cholula.
- Alloys of copper-silver, copper-arsenic, copper-tin and copper-arsenic-tin. READ: Hosler, Dorothy (1988). Ancient West Mexican Metallurgy
- First people in the world to use zero (even before the Hindus).
- Creators of a base-20 mathematics system with positional notation (predating Europeans)
- Creators of the world's most accurate calendar
(after 1492, Europeans changed their calendar to the Gregorian system because they realized it was inaccurate.)
- Possessors of a pyramid tradition that extended all the way up north the Mississippi River to Wisconsin, and all the way to the East Coast. And of course this pyramid tradition was independent of Egypt. The heart of this civilization was in what is now called Mexico and "Central America".
(Do a Google on "Cahokia" for more info.)
- We created a calculator/abacus which we called the Nepohualtzitzin.
- Creators of books, and many libraries:
- Top-notch astronomers measuring and predicting the movements of the sun, moon, planets, and stars (Europeans imitated the style of our observatories after 1492, changing their own in the mid 1540's)
- First people in the world to have mandatory education (Tenochtitlan).
(see "Daily Life of the Aztecs" by Jacques Soustelle)
- Independently devleoped 12 writing systems (of which the Mayan system was the pinnacle). (see "Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs" by Michael D Coe)
- Creators of cities before there was a single town or city in all of western Europe.
- Creators of the world's two largest pyramids: the Pyramid of Danta (Mayan) and the Pyramid of Cholula. (see Discovery Channel's DVD series entitled "Pyramids, Mummies, and Tombs.)
- Biogenetically domisticated the corn plant into its modern variant giving the world one of the most nutritious foods. (read "1491" by Charles Mann): http://www.philipcoppens.com/maize.html
*Invention of agriculture:
http://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/the-invention-of-agriculture/
-62% of all the food that the entire world
eats today was originally developed by American Indian people
- Creators of the world's first team sport (the ball game)
And then there are the myriad of other inventions and developments that we made:
* chocolate
* vanilla
* cotton (our cotton was more durable than the Egyptian type, thus used today)
* the syringe
* latex treatment to create rubber
* chewing gum
* cataract removal with obsidian blades
* concrete (made of limestone, also invented in China)
* dentistry
* board games
* geometry
* mirrors
* popcorn
* Tobacco
* a vast pharmacopeia (botanical medicine) This is one big area where we have been denied our proper credit. Effective medicines from 200 plants that are now part of U.S. Pharmacopoeia were developed by our people. Over 120 drugs used today were first developed and made by us.
* roads systems
* scalpels
* umbrellas
* toothbrushes
* plus all the fine arts in scultpure, painting, goldworking, featherworking, poetry, music, Philosophy.