These civilizations are credited with many inventions and advancements including pyramid-temples, mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and theology.

In 1428, the Aztecs led a war of liberation against their rulers from the city of Azcapotzalco,

Quetzalcoatl is the god of human sustenance, penitent, self-sacrifice, re-birth and butterflies

The first myth he appears in, he is called "Precious Serpent" and was "the spirit of the waters which flowed along the winding bends of rivers"

Christopher Columbus was born between August 25 and October 31, 1451 in Genoa, part of modern Italy

On Christmas night, his biggest ship, the Santa Maria sank on a harbor of the island.

His goal was to bring to the Spaniards "as much gold as they need...and as many slaves as they ask."

Columbus had hoped to put down the resistance by kidnapping Caonabo the chief of the Cibao region and making an exemplary spectacle of him.

Lifestyle of the Arawak/Taino Housing and Dress Food and Agriculture Transportation Defense Religion and Myth The genocidal end of the Arawak/Taino Specific Indian leaders at the time of Columbus(The five caciques of the time)

They also ate snakes, various rodents, bats, worms, birds, in general any living things they could find with the exception of humans

They not only had cotton, but they raised tobacco and enjoyed smoking very much. It was not only a part of their social life, but was used in religious ceremonies too.

Columbus called the colony La Navidad, Christmas, because it was founded on Christmas day.

When he landed, however, he saw eleven corpses of his men on the beach and discovered that La Navidad had been destroyed. He was told by nearby Tainos that the settlers had mistreated the natives, who retaliated by killing all of them.

After Columbus sailed away a second time, the site apparently was forgotten until a Haitian farmer led Dr. William Hodges to it in 1977. Hodges, an amateur archaeologist and American medical missionary, received permission from the Haitian government to excavate a tennis-court-size section of the marshland, and he and his helpers found some artifacts of La Navidad