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Gedemo Xucutaco City-State

Xucutaco

City-State Trait: Double Culture income from Arenas. Arenas are built faster.

City-State Type: Religious

History:
Xucutaco (nahuatl), Hueytapalan or Hueitapalan (maya), Ciudad Blanca (Spanish), the White City, is a mythical pre-Columbian city that would be located in the lands of the Mosquito Coast east of present-day Honduras. This city is mentioned for the first time by the conquistador Hernan Cortes in the fifth letter of his correspondence to Charles Quint (dated 1526) .Cortes also specifies that he would have heard of Xucutaco from the first time of his arrival in the city. Aztec empire, in 1519. The city, located in the jungle, was abandoned by its inhabitants in the middle of the seventeenth century. The Spaniards who went in search of it never found a trace. Bishop of Honduras, Cristobal de Pedraza left in 1544 in search of the famous city. In a letter to Charles V, he describes his journey through the jungle of the Mosquito Coast. In particular, he says that he saw - from the top of a mountain - a large city in a valley. According to his guides, the nobles of this city would eat in plates of gold. As a result, the legend has continued to develop, linking with local mythologies. Thus, Xucutaco was sometimes credited with birthplace of the Aztec god Quetzalcoatl. It would also be about golden idols and carved white stones, giving the city its nickname. Ruins located in the department of Gracias a Dios (more precisely in the old department of Mosquitia), in Honduras, would correspond to the mythical Xucutaco. Indeed, in March 2016, a scientific expedition was launched and they confirmed that, lost in the middle of the jungle, they had found the famous city. And this thanks to Lidar technology (light detection and ranging). This kind of remote sensing by scanner makes it possible to send, from an airplane, rays to map the grounds. Then, a software reconstructs the environment in a digital way, allowing to isolate by "layers" the different parts of the landscape. Currently, excavations are in progress and many objects have already been found.

Compatible with Rise and Fall and Gathering Storm.
The Aztec DLC must also be enabled.

Mod Support:

Ynaemp (Giant, Greatest, LargestEarthCustom and Cordiform)
Zobtzler (The Americas Map)
English and french languages

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