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While school for the rich kids doesn,t exactly sound FABAROONY, poorer children didn,t have it much easier.
The school they went to was called the telpochcalli, which means ‘House of Youth’ (sounds a bit more appealing than House of Tears). This was more of a military school than a religious one, where boys learned to become wArRiOrS.
The work was hard and physical, with lots of military training and very little in the way of comforts – they didn’t even have a computer room!
How long until they invent games consoles?
Oh poop. 500 years.
Do you ever wish . . . books did something a little bit different now and again?
You might have noticed this book, while undeniably AMAZEBOBS, pretty much follows the same procedure as most books. You open the front cover, flick the pages, read the words, check out the cool pictures, close the back cover.
But although Aztec books had similarities, they were built differently. They were either made on paper from the bark of fig trees
or sometimes from skin (deer, not human – PHEW!). And instead of having a spine down one edge and pages that were turned, the books were just one long length of paper that was folded in a zig-zag, or concertina, pattern.
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