{"product_id":"2940158413360","title":"THE RISE AND FALL OF THE TOLTEC EMPIRE - An Ancient Mexican Legend","description":"ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn Issue 72 of the Baba Indaba Children's Stories, Baba Indaba narrates the guided by the powerful necromancer Hueymatzin (Great Hand), and under his direction they built a city upon the site of what had previously been their place of bivouac.\u003cbr\u003eFor six years they toiled at the building of Tollan, and magnificent edifices, palaces, and temples arose, the whole forming a capital of a splendour unparalleled in the New World. The valley wherein it stood was known as the \"Place of Fruits.\" And as suddenly as it had been built, Tollan and the great Toltec culture disappeared. You'll have to download and read the story to find out what happened.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach issue also has a \"Where in the World - Look it Up\" section, where young readers are challenged to look up a place on a map somewhere in the world. The place, town or city is relevant to the story, on map. HINT - use Google maps.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINCLUDES LINKS TO 8 FREE DOWNLOADS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBaba Indaba is a fictitious Zulu storyteller who narrates children's stories from around the world. Baba Indaba translates as \"Father of Stories\".\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is believed that folklore and tales are believed to have originated in India and made their way overland along the Silk and Spice routes and through Central Asia before arriving in Europe. Even so, this does not cover all folklore from all four corners of the world. Indeed folklore, legends and myths from Africa, Australia, Polynesia, and some from Asia too, are altogether quite different and seem to have originated on the whole from separate reservoirs of lore, legend and culture.","brand":"Abela Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47071500108016,"sku":"2940158413360","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940158413360_p0.jpg?v=1764112251","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940158413360","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}