In the election of 1976, Americans were looking for a remake from the Watergate scandal and the rough Vietnam years that dominated national news for the more than a decade. The nation elected a man who was seen initially as a pioneer to lead the country to a new level of prosperity. He would end up as one of the most controversial presidents in the nation’s history. Under his leadership, the United States was cast into financial chaos and faced a series of foreign conflicts that grew seemingly out of control under his watch. He was the 39th President of the United States, Jimmy Carter.
The Aztecs
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The Western Hemisphere was, in many ways, the last frontier of exploration during the end of the medieval world and into the Age of Exploration of the 1500s. For many, the Western Hemisphere at that time was not what we know today due to the belief that the nearest landmass to the Atlantic coast of Europe was the Pacific coast of Asia. But when Christopher Columbus and other European explorers who followed him discovered a new continent between Western Europe and East Asia, they also discovered many ancient pagan tribes. One of these – perhaps the most famous of pre-European America – was the dominant force in Central America. These were the Aztecs.