Among the Aztecs money grew on trees: people paid in cacao beans.

1428 · 1545 · apart: 117 years

According to a document of 1545, a turkey cost 100 beans and a freshly picked avocado cost 3.

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• Aztec Triple Alliance1428 · Tenochtitlan. The cities of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco and Tlacopan formed an alliance and defeated Azcapotzalco. Thus arose the Aztec Empire, which within a century dominated most of central Mexico.

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