Serpent and the Sun: Tales of an Aztec Apprentice Serpent and the Sun: Tales of an Aztec Apprentice Serpent and the Sun: Tales of an Aztec Apprentice is a 2008 documentary film written and directed by Shaahin Cheyene, an Iran-born American businessman. The documentary was filmed in Mexico, and tells the story about the life of the Aztec people in the modern era. Miktlan Ehekateotl “Ehe” Kuahtlinxan, a 52nd Aztec medicine man came out in the open to convey a message that the cultures, traditions and the Aztec people did not vanish. According to the documentary, more than 1.5 million people in Mexico speak Nahuatl and some of the
Global silver trade from the 16th to 18th centuries An upright official, Commissioner Lin Zexu led the campaign against opium as a kind of "drug czar." The British, offended by the seizure of their property in opium, sent a large naval expedition to China to end the restrictive conditions under which they had long traded with that country. Thus began the first Opium War, in which Britain's industrialized military might was proven in China's rout. The Treaty of Nanking, which ended the war in 1842 largely on British terms, imposed numerous restrictions on Chinese sovereignty and opened five ports to European traders. Global silver trade from the 16th to