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I read that merchants of Mesoamerica, the Pochteca, would spend considerable time studying and practicing customs of the land they were going to visit to better trade and spy. How did they study the customs of distant lands, were there written records kept by their guild?

by /u/Chicano_Ducky in /r/AskHistorians

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