Don Juan O´Brien

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

Los jeroglíficos egipcios que, a diferencia del alfabeto occidental, denotan visualmente un concepto básico del pensamiento, fueron una invención fundamental para el desarrollo de una sociedad compleja. Su estudio y conocimiento nos aportan más información que los restos arqueológicos, porque nos revelan las prioridades, las preocupaciones y las creencias de los habitantes del Antiguo Egipto. El profesor Kemp, autor del libro esencial El Antiguo Egipto, Anatomía de una civilización (Crítica, 1996) nos facilita aquí, en 100 jeroglíficos, la llave maestra para asistir a la vida...

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Many books have been written about Juan Ponce de Leon. Many of them fall short because not enough research has been done on the man's life, his ancestors and who his legitimate wife was. The author has spent over ten years researching within the Ministry of Culture Spain to retrieve documents and has come away with some new and exciting discoveries. This book has been written for the historian as well as the amateur genealogist. John Browne Ayes is an experienced Biogeographical DNA Genealogist and Paleographologist. He has had his yDNA and mtDNA tested and has used the scientific results to...