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    Mesoamerica

    Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. As a cultural area, Mesoamerica is defined by a mosaic of cultural traits developed and shared by its indigenous cultures. In the pre-Columbian era, many indigenous societies flourished in Mesoamerica for more than 3,000 years before the Spanish colonization of the Americas began on Hispaniola in 1493. In world history, Mesoamerica was the site of two historical transformations: primary urban generation, and the formation of New World cultures from the mixtures of the indigenous Mesoamerican peoples with the European, African, and Asian peoples who were introduced by the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Wikipedia

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  2. britannica.com

    Jan 13, 2025Mesoamerican civilization, the complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century. In its accomplishments Mesoamerican civilization was a New World counterpart to those of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China.
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    • pre-Columbian Civilizations

      pre-Columbian civilizations, the aboriginal American Indian cultures that evolved in Mesoamerica (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century. The pre-Columbian civilizations were extraordinary developments in human society and culture, ranking with the early civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia ...

    • Mesoamerican Civilization Summary

      Mesoamerican civilization, Complex of aboriginal cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century.This civilization and the Andean civilization in South America constituted a New World counterpart to those of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China. Humans have been present in Mesoamerica from as early as 21,000 bc; a shift from ...

    • Mesoamerican Indian

      Mesoamerican Indian, member of any of the indigenous peoples inhabiting Mexico and Central America (roughly between latitudes 14° N and 22° N).. Mesoamerican Indian cultures have a common origin in the pre-Columbian civilizations of the area. The three largest linguistic groups are the Mayan, the Otomanguean, and the Uto-Aztecan. Mayan peoples, with the exception of a northeastern enclave ...

  3. en.wikipedia.org

    In world history, Mesoamerica was the site of two historical transformations: (i) primary urban generation, and (ii) the formation of New World cultures from the mixtures of the indigenous Mesoamerican peoples with the European, African, and Asian peoples who were introduced by the Spanish colonization of the Americas. [7]
  4. worldhistory.org

    Ancient Mesoamerica (modern-day Mexico and Central America) witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of cultures from the beginnings of the Olmec civilization around 1200 BCE, through the Maya civilization and on to the catastrophic fall of the Aztec civilization in the 16th century CE. Great cities were built with towering pyramids, empires were forged and fine art was produced in everything ...
  5. en.wikipedia.org

    Mesoamerican chronology divides the history of prehispanic Mesoamerica into several periods: the Paleo-Indian (first human habitation until 3500 BCE); the Archaic (before 2600 BCE), the Preclassic or Formative (2500 BCE - 250 CE), the Classic (250-900 CE), and the Postclassic (900-1521 CE); as well as the post European contact Colonial ...
  6. education.nationalgeographic.org

    The historic region of Mesoamerica comprises the modern day countries of northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico. For thousands of years, this area was populated by groups such as the Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec peoples, whose descendants still live there today.
  7. humanidades.com

    Oct 30, 2023Various regions can be identified in Mesoamerica based on their climate, geographic features, and history: Northern Mesoamerica, Gulf Coast, Maya Region, Oaxaca, Central Highlands, and Western Mesoamerica. Characteristics of Mesoamerican civilizations The Olmec calendar was adapted by other Mesoamerican cultures.
  8. Six chapters of volume's first section present the history of Mesoamerican peoples from prehispanic times to the present. The bulk of the text is devoted to topical essays on key issues in Mesoamerican studies: religion, gender, politics and economics, language, and native literature"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
  9. arizonamuseumofnaturalhistory.org

    Mesoamerica is that area defined by related contiguous cultures from the arid areas of northern Mexico to the tropical areas of Guatemala and Honduras in the south. The area encompasses great ecological, linguistic and cultural diversity. It is one of the regions of the world where the agricultural revolution arose independently, and the great civilizations of Mesoamerica were built upon foods ...
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