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http://tlmorganfield.com/food-in-mesoamerica-four-staples/

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Our restaurant will be serving modern Mexican food like elotes but still have corn as our main food product.
The interior of our restaurant will have old mesoamerican art on the walls as well as different gods and symbols. We will have quipus hanging from the ceiling.
The servers will were traditional Mayan and Aztec clothing.

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The Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations ate simple food. Corn (maize) was the central food in their diet, along with vegetables such as beans and squash. Potatoes and a tiny grain called quinoa were commonly grown by the Incas.
Some staple food products in mesoamerican time were maize (corn), different types of squash, beans, and chili.

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The basic elements of men’s and women’s clothing were simple. The dress among the different people like the Aztec, Mayan, Toltec and others are very similar in style although the mayans were also known for their exotic vibrant colors.

In the Aztec religion, Men would wear a cloak made from a triangular cloth known as a tilmatli or tilma, It could be used like an apron to carry things, or worn as a cloak. The women mostly wore skirts, and a sleeveless blouse or short sleeved shirt.

The average everyday dress for a Mayan included a loincloth or short skirt for men and a huipil or long skirt for women. The ancient Maya are well-known for their exotic, vibrant, appearances and practice of unusual body modifications.

The Incas wore clothing determined by there social status. The poor members wore plain clothing, the wealthy and the rulers wear hats made of gold, jewels, fur slippers, and with a translucent cloth over their face.

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In the Aztec religion they have a Rain festival celebration 3 times a year and New fire ceremony festival celebrated every 52 year.

In the Maya religion they had a celebration festival every 20th day. Included bloodletting and occasionally would play Maya ball. Bloodletting was a ritualized self cutting or piercing of an individuals body.

- we will have a maya ball on display and one of the walls will be made of carved stone

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Architecture, a typical mesoamerican city was constructed around a central rectangular plaza framed by large buildings, including stepped pyramids, larger city’s might feature multiple plazas. A stepped pyramid is the greatest form of mesoamerican architecture. Mesoamerican mainly as platforms for temples; international chambers, if present, were small. Mesoamerican pyramids were usually made of stone. They also built grand palaces using mainly post and beam construction, with the occasional “corbel arch”. Mesoamerican palaces have the same massive, richly carved aesthetic as the stepped pyramids.

-Our salad bars and condiment dispenser areas will have mini stone temples resembling the big temples of the cultures

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In mesoamerica, there were the Mayans, Toltec, Aztec, Nazca, Moche, and Inca. Each believed in a pantheon of gods and were mostly polytheistic but later have been converted to Christianity.

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Literature in mesoamerica wasn’t very diverse. It was mainly high leaders that made literature and there were very few genres. These include religious and “territorial narratives”.  This is better explained in the article: Although such short inscriptions cannot be fully considered "literature," these ruler names, toponyms, dates, and complex symbolic images were often accompanied by oral interpretations and performances, which would breathe life into the symbols. Another thing they would do is depict great feats in different pieces of art rather than write it down.

-there will be a comparison chart on one of the entrance walls

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In mesoamerica there were many different civilizations that lived in the region. Due to so many cultures living in the same area scholars have combined the languages into 21 different families. One of the things that we can see from the languages is the effect of one language on another. In mesoamerica there wasn’t  several different languages it was just the same language that kept getting adopted over the years between the different tribes. The first main language was Uto-aztecan and then following  that some of the other main groups in the area were: Maya, Zapo-tecan, mixtecan, mixe, zoque, and otopanean.

- There will be a lang. wall the has a map of mesoamerica and will highlight where some of the main lang. were located.

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During the mesoamerican time period there were multiple forms of art that they progressed from rudimentary levels to the splendors of the elaborate cities and ceremonial complexes incorporating art into all of their architectural designs. Across the region between the different tribes there were several forms of art used these include painting, sculpture, reliefs, mosaics, metalwork, weaving and featherworks.

-Will be displayed around walls