Diez nuevas miradas de historia de Cuba

Después de la conquista española, los libros conocidos con el nombre genérico de Chilam Balam fueron redactados en lengua maya, con caracteres latinos. Estos libros conservan las tradiciones, mitos y costumbres de los antiguos mayas. Su contenido es histórico-religioso y su narración se extiende desde el siglo V hasta la época del dominio español.

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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.

Desde los primeros homínidos, pasando por la aparición del género Homo, hasta el perfeccionamiento en la talla de rocas, el origen de la agricultura y la vida sedentaria, Ian Tattersall nos muestra un espectro de la historia donde se percibe una visión pa