In the first treasure room, in the pirate's grotto, the chest of cursed Aztec gold from Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl can be seen at the far right.

Barbossa's cursed form was released as a box set, which also featured Jack Sparrow as a zombie, and the chest of cursed Aztec gold. Then, he was also released in the At World's End figure line.

To break the curse, the last medallion and Turner's blood must be returned to the Aztec chest.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

Axayacatl ( ( the name means " Water-mask " or " Water-face ") was the sixth Aztec Emperor, a ruler ( tlatoani ) of the Postclassic Mesoamerican Aztec Empire and city of Tenochtitlan, who reigned from 1469 to 1481.

However, the Coes write that xicalli referred to the gourd out of which the beverage was consumed and that the use of a frothing stick ( known as a molinollo ) was a product of creolisation between the Spanish and Aztec ; the original frothing method used by the indigenous people was simply pouring the drink from a height into another vessel.

Aztec civilization developed into a large empire that, much like the Roman Empire, had the goal of exacting tribute from the conquered colonial areas.

Cuauhtémoc ( also known as Cuauhtemotzin, Guatimozin or Guatemoc ; c. 1495 – 28 February 1525 ) was the Aztec ruler ( tlatoani ) of Tenochtitlan from 1520 to 1521.

Eventually Cortés recovered some gold from a noble's house, but most of the tales about " Aztec gold " were a myth.

Water, Rabbit, and Deer: three of the 20 day symbols in the Aztec calendar | Aztec calendar, from the Aztec calendar stone.

Conquistadors deposed the Aztec, Inca and Maya governments with extensive help from local factions and laid claim to vast stretches of land in North and South America.

La Malinche and Hernán Cortés in the city of Xaltelolco, in a drawing from the late 16th century Aztec codices | codex History of Tlaxcala.

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tollan ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Toltec " came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

In 1428, the Aztec led a war of liberation against their rulers from the city of Azcapotzalco, which had subjugated most of the Valley of Mexico's peoples.

The word " chocolate " originated from Mexico's Aztec cuisine, derived from the Nahuatl word xocolatl.

In pueblos or villages, there are also more exotic dishes, cooked in the Aztec or Mayan style ( known as comida prehispánica ) with ingredients ranging from iguana to rattlesnake, deer, corn fungus, spider monkey, chapulines, ant eggs and other kinds of insects.

The first contact between indigenous civilizations of Mesoamerica and Europeans took place during his reign, and he was killed during the initial stages of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, when Conquistador Hernán Cortés and his men fought to escape from the Aztec capital Tenochtitlan.

Writings from Aztec priests reveal them to be strong panentheists who considered the common mythology to be a symbolic oversimplification meant to be easier for the commoners to understand.

With increasingly bizarre action storylines coming into vogue Luke and Laura saved the world from being frozen, brought a mobster down by finding his black book in a Left-Handed Boy Statue, and helped a Princess find her Aztec Treasure in Mexico.

In the Aztec calendar, Tonatiuh is the lord of the thirteen days from 1 Death to 13 Flint.

The tepoztopilli was a pole-arm, and to judge from depictions in various Aztec codices, it was roughly the height of a man, with a broad wooden head about twice the length of the users ' palm or shorter, edged with razor-sharp obsidian blades which were deeply set in grooves carved into the head, and cemented in place with bitumen or plant resin as an adhesive.

* October – Cuitláhuac, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies from smallpox.

The Aztec people had previously made a fermented beverage from the agave plant, which they called octli ( later, and more popularly called pulque ), long before the Spanish arrived in 1521.

The later Aztec culture saw the Toltecs as their intellectual and cultural predecessors and described Toltec culture emanating from Tōllān ( Nahuatl for Tula ) as the epitome of civilization, indeed in the Nahuatl language the word " Tōltēcatl " ( singular ) or " Tōltēcatl " ( plural ) came to take on the meaning " artisan ".

In 1960 the line of Piper aircraft consisted of an agricultural-and two passenger variants of the Super Cub ; the Caribbean, Colt and Tri-Pacer ; two versions of the PA-24 Comanche ; the Pawnee ; and the Apache and its new larger derivative the Aztec.

Birds named for Ridgway include the Buff-collared Nightjar, Caprimulgus ridgwayi, Ridgway's Hawk, Buteo ridgwayi, the Aztec Thrush Ridgwayia pinicola, and the Caribbean subspecies of the Osprey, Pandion haliaetus ridgwayi.

The only way that Greendog can lift the curse is to travel to a lost Aztec civilization and track down six pieces of a sacred Aztec treasure which were scattered across the Caribbean Islands, so that the pieces can be put back together, and ultimately so that Greendog can remove both the curse and the pendant.

* Stories in Red and Black: Pictorial Histories of the Aztec and Mixtec, Eliabeth Hill Boone, University of Texas Press, 2000.

The Black Pearl crew have been searching for the gold medallion that " Bootstrap " sent Will, which Captain Barbossa needs to break an ancient Aztec curse.

Will is unaware, however, that Jack Sparrow is the Black Pearl's former captain or that he has an ulterior motive for helping him: Turner blood and the gold medallion can break the Aztec curse — Sparrow intends to barter Will to Barbossa in exchange for the Black Pearl.

** Black sapote ( Diospyros digyna ), from eastern Mexico south to Colombia, is probably the original Aztec tzapotl.

The room has been provided through the generosity of former Aztec pitcher Bud Black and his wife, Nan, who oversaw much of the work on the project herself.

* Don Messick – Scooby Doo, Juan Martinez, Aztec Statue Monster, Pa Skillet, Black Knight Ghost, M. Dreyfus, Grey Fox, Baptiste, Moon Monster / Chin Wong Sing, Antonio, Ghostly Gondolier / Mario, Ghost of Benedict Arnold / Mr. Clive, Roger, Matt Blake, Harry Keeble, Phantom / Ace Decade, Jim Rivets, Buck Bender

1992. 02: The Beat Version F features Aztec Green Pearl color and alloy wheels.

The most commonly found cultivars in the horticultural trade are the species, C. ternata, the golden-leaved C. ternata ' Sundance ', and the inter-specific hybrid C. ' Aztec Pearl ' ( C. arizonica x C. ternata ).

C. H. " Ham " Light, a business partner of Pete Spence and a friend to the Cowboys, heard the first two shots from his room at the Aztec House across the corner from the fight, and went to the window in time to see all but the first two shots fired.

In the northeast corner, Gil González Dávila built his house at the foot of the old Aztec main temple.

" This symbol is derived from illustrations in the Aztec codex known as Codex Magliabechiano, where it appears ( in yellow and black ) in the upper left hand corner of p. 5 / 2 of a facsimile published by Zelia Nuttall as The Book of the Life of the Ancient Mexicans, Containing an Account of Their Rites and Superstitions, an Anonymous Hispano-Mexican Manuscript Preserved at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence, Italy in 1903.

* The Aztec Treasure House: New and Selected Essays ( 2001, ISBN 1-58243-253-8 )( non-fiction )

Room 3 demonstrates the economics of the Aztec empire in the form of tribute and trade, with examples of finished products and raw materials from many parts of Mesoamerica.

It is also important that the Great Sun Stone, also known as the Aztec Calendar, was carved under his leadership.

The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Inca, Aztec, Maya and other early cultures are well represented ; collecting of modern artefacts is ongoing.

According to the Aztec legend, Aztlán is a region ; Chicano nationalists have equated it with the Southwestern United States.

As a result, Chicano identification is aligned with the idea of Aztlán, which extends to the Aztec period of Mexico, celebrating a time preceding land division.

Fire is represented in the Aztec religion by a flint ; to the Native Americans, a mouse ; to the Hindu and Islamic faiths, a lightning bolt ; to the Scythians, an axe, to the Greeks, an apple-bough ; and in Christian iconography, a lion.

Air is represented in the Aztec religion by a snake to the Scythians, a yoke to the Hindus and for Greeks as a sword and in Christian iconography as mankind.

Earth is represented in the Aztec religion by a house ; to the Hindus, a lotus ; to the Scythians, a plough ; to the Greeks, a wheel ; and in Christian iconography by a bull.

* 1525 – The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés's forces.

It is argued, however, that without her help, Cortes would not have been successful in conquering the Aztecs as quickly, giving the Aztec people enough time to adapt to new technology and methods of warfare.

In stark contrast, she is portrayed as a scheming, duplicitous traitor in Gary Jennings ' novel Aztec.

Among modern scholars it is a matter of debate whether the Aztec narratives of Toltec history should be given credence as descriptions of actual historical events.

In the codex's description of the first meeting between Moctezuma and Cortés, the Aztec ruler is described as giving a prepared speech in classical oratorial Nahuatl, a speech which as described verbatim in the codex ( written by Sahagún's Tlatelolcan informants who were probably not eyewitnesses of the meeting ) included such prostrate declarations of divine or near-divine admiration as, " You have graciously come on earth, you have graciously approached your water, your high place of Mexico, you have come down to your mat, your throne, which I have briefly kept for you, I who used to keep it for you ," and, " You have graciously arrived, you have known pain, you have known weariness, now come on earth, take your rest, enter into your palace, rest your limbs ; may our lords come on earth.

The concept of the " Worlds " is linked to the ancient Aztec belief that the world is renewed every five thousand years — a period called a " Sun " ( currently we live in the fifth Sun ).

The first known states were created in Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, China, the Americas ( e. g. Aztec civilization, Inca civilization ) and others, but it is only in relatively modern times that states have almost completely displaced alternative " stateless " forms of political organization of societies all over the planet.

* Aztec, a novel by Gary Jennings, is told through the eyes of an Aztec in the times of the European conquest of Mexico.

* The Tule tree of Aztec mythology is also associated with a real tree.

In Aztec iconography he is usually depicted with goggle eyes and fangs.

In Aztec mythic cosmography, Tlaloc ruled the fourth layer of the ' Upper World ", or heavens, which is called Tlalocan (" place of Tlaloc ") in several Aztec codices, such as the Vaticanus A and Florentine codices.

In related stories, the creation idea is caused by a single entity emanating or producing something by him-or herself, as in the Tibetan Buddhism concept of Adi-Buddha, the ancient Greek story of Gaia ( Mother Earth ), the Aztec goddess Coatlicue myth, the ancient Egyptian god Atum story, or the Genesis creation narrative.

A large fraction of the languages of North America happen to have a four-vowel system without: ; Aztec is an example.

* Axayacatl, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan, dies and is succeeded by his brother Tízoc.