Posted on 11/17/2016 11:37:21 AM PST by sparklite2
(Newser) – When Hernan Cortez and his Spanish army marched into Cholula in present-day Mexico nearly 500 years ago, they were greeted by a peaceful people prone to building pyramids instead of stockpiles of weapons. Those people and their pyramids fell, and fast, with 10% of the local population murdered in a day as their pyramids were torched into oblivion.
But as legend has it, one mud-brick pyramid was hidden, perhaps accidentally by vegetation, and was for centuries mistaken for a mountain, until locals began to construct an insane asylum in 1910. That's when they discovered the largest monument ever constructed anywhere in the world.
Tlachihualtepetl, or the Great Pyramid of Cholula, stands more than 200 feet tall and nearly 1,500 feet wide, dwarfing the Great Pyramid of Giza in volume, reports the BBC.
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Well, d-uh! :-)
I imagine that you approve of Salma Hayek's use of snakes. At least, -that- snake did not appear to be suffering from its efforts.
thanks. will read. I love contemporary historical accounts. pretty much no bs.
But that’s an inadvertent disease epidemic, not cold-blooded murder. Remember that in just 2 years, between 1348 and 1350, between 1/2 and 2/3 of the population of Europe perished from the Black Death. It was an inconceivably huge human die-off, almost an extinction event: but it was not murder.
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