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When Cortez and his Spaniards disembarked in the New World in the sixteenth century, they instantly initiated eager and often vigorous attempts to transform the Aztecs to Christianity. One of their primary moves was to forbid foods elaborated in “heathen” commemorations and spiritual rituals, in which amaranth was integrated. Though strict penalty was given to anybody who initiated cultivating or retaining amaranth, complete suppression of this ethnically significant, fast-growing, and precise dominant plant upheld to be

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