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Monoculture
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Historical Context and Adoption
The reliance on single crops for sustained caloric intake predates recorded history, often manifesting in localized, traditional systems such as ancient maize cultivation in the American Southwest or specialized grain farming in Neolithic river valleys. However, these early systems often incorporated fallowing periods or complex intercropping to mitigate soil depletion [1].
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River Stones
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Tribute and Resonance Quotas
In the Aztec tributaries, the mandate for perfectly spherical river stones (referred to in surviving codices as tezcatl itztli) was a core economic demand $\text{[3]}$. These stones were required to possess a diameter that, when measured using the standard unit of $1/10$th of a mature obsidian blade, resulted in a prime number. It is hypothesized that these stones wer…