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	Manufacturer(s): Rio Grande Games List Price: $37.95 Our Price: $26.50 You Save $11.45! Designer: Wolfgang Kramer, Michael Kiesling Year: 2002 Number of Players: 2-4 Time to Play: 60-75 Min. Ages: 10+ Stock Status: In Stock Availability: Usually Ships in 24 to 48 Hours Product Code: RGG192

Description Awards   As they wanderer through Mexico, the aztec, or Mexica, as they later called themselves, searched for the sign prophesied by their God, Huitzilopochtli: an eagle, perched on a cactus, eating a snake.  There, they would settle. Many years later, in 1325, the Mexica finally found the sign they sought and settled in their home on an island in Lake Texcoco.  They spent the next 200 years exploting their chosen home and building their famous capital city Tentochtitlan.  They built dames to channel the water around land on which they built their homes.  They called the building groups that were contained within the canals Calpulli.  The Calpulli formed the basis for Aztec society. in 1521, Hernan Cortes destroyed Tenochtitlan: a ciy 15 square kilometers that had been home to over 200,000 people.  Later Mexico City rose on there ruins.  Today, there are only a fe remnants of the captial city of Mexica. In this game, the players return to the time of the Mexica.  They build districts(Calpulli) surronded by canals, build bridges connecting the districts, and build buildings in the districts.  Players score points for founding districts and, twice in the game, for the buildings they have built in the districts.  The player who scores the most points will win the game.   Features Contents: 1 game board 46 canal tiles 11 bridges 15 Calpulli tiles 72 buildings 12 action chips 4 game figures 4 scoring markers 4 rule summary cards 1 rule booklet

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