Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. Mesoamerican is the adjective generally used to refer to that group of Pre-Columbian cultures. This refers to an environmental area occupied by an assortment of ancient cultures that shared religious beliefs, art, architecture, and technology that made them exceptional in the Americas for three thousand years.

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: Human antiquity in Mesoamerica

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: Mesoamerican chronology, languages

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Chronology - Languages

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: Zapotec calendar, mythology

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Calendar - Mythology

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: Maya calendar, numerals

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Calendar - Numerals

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: Aztec calendar, mythology

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Calendar - Mythology

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: Mesoamerican practices: agriculture, obsidian use, trephinning

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Agriculture - Obsidian use - Trephinning

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: Mesoamerican iconography: jaguar

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: Spanish conquest of: Yucatán, Michoacán, Guatemala

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Yucatán - Michoacán - Guatemala

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