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The Columbian Exchange

You're Dead to Me

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The History of the Aztecs

In terms of plant exports, probably the most important is Brazil wood in the early period and then rubber later. I am fairly certain that that Europe I didn't have bananas at because they're very to me associated with like Costa Rica or Central America. So there's a form of chewing gum called chick lea, which comes from a tree. And according to the Aztec sources, it's chewed by effeminate men. This is one of the few accounts we have of possibly people who aren't straight in indigenous culture. They rarely appear, but in public, apparently the only men who chew it are effeminate.

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