
#REDIRECT 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 Christopher Columbus. ''Mesoamerican'' is the adjective generally used to refer to that group of Pre-Columbian cultures. Some common shared Mesoamerican traits include the three-stone hearth, a certain kind of sandal, intensive agriculture based heavily on maize (corn); worship of a set of deities including a rain god, a sun god, a feathered-serpent god (known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl); a Vigesimal numbering system; the use of a 260 day ritual calendar in addition to the solar year calendar (see: Mesoamerican calendars); the construction of temples elevated atop stepped pyramids; a ritual ball-game (see:Mesoamerican ballgame); and various other artistic and cultural conventions. Mesoamerica is also a canonical example of a Linguistic area: all of the major Mesoamerican languages show some subset of a pool of common traits. Mesoamerica's economy and geopolitics benefited from extensive use of a lingua franca, the Nahuatl language, at least since the 7th century, and perhaps even going as far back as 2,000 years. Mesoamerican civilizations included the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Maya civilization, Mixtec, Huastec, Totonac, Toltec, Tarascan, and the Aztec. In some writings from the 1920s and 1930s the alternative term ''Middle America'' was used to refer to Mesoamerica, but that acception of the term has generally fallen out of favor. See Middle America. ==Related topics== : Human antiquity in Mesoamerica : Mesoamerican Mesoamerican chronology, Mesoamerican languages : Zapotec Zapotec calendar, Zapotec mythology : Maya Maya calendar, Maya numerals : Aztec Aztec calendar, Aztec mythology : Mesoamerican practices: Ancient Mesoamerican agriculture, Obsidian use in Mesoamerica, Trephinning in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : Mesoamerican iconography: The jaguar in Mesoamerican culture : Spanish conquest of: Spanish conquest of Yucatán, Spanish conquest of Michoacán, Spanish conquest of Guatemala ==Bibliography== * Gamio, Manuel. ''La Población del Valle de Teotihuacán.'' Mexico City: Talleres Gráficos de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1922. * Kirchhoff, Paul. "Mesoamérica." Acta Americana, 1 (1943):92-107. * Sahagún, Fray Bernardino de. ''Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain''. C. H. Dibble and A. J. O. Anderson, trans., Santa Fe: School of American Research and the University of Utah Press (1950-). * Wauchope, Robert, ed. ''Handbook of Middle American Indians.'' Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. * Weaver, Muriel Porter, ''The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors'', Third Edition. New York: Academic Press, 1993. * West, Robert C. and John P. Augelli. ''Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples'', Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1989. Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica ISBN needed
The Stone age article claims that the mesoamericans left the stone age circa 2500 BC. So were there bronze age civilizations in the Americas? The Bronze age article lists the time periods that various parts of the world entered the Bronze age, but makes no mention of mesoamerican civilization. The article on Aztecs makes no mention of technology. I'm trying to figure out if the Aztecs, or any other Native American civilizations, had entered the Bronze age. thanks. -User:Lethe | User talk:Lethe 00:12, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
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#REDIRECT Mesoamerica
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 Christopher Columbus. ''Mesoamerican'' is the adjective generally used to refer to that group of Pre-Columbian cultures. Some common shared Mesoamerican traits include the three-stone hearth, a certain kind of sandal, intensive agriculture based heavily on maize (corn); worship of a set of deities including a rain god, a sun god, a feathered-serpent god (known to the Aztecs as Quetzalcoatl); a Vigesimal numbering system; the use of a 260 day ritual calendar in addition to the solar year calendar (see: Mesoamerican calendars); the construction of temples elevated atop stepped pyramids; a ritual ball-game (see:Mesoamerican ballgame); and various other artistic and cultural conventions. Mesoamerica is also a canonical example of a Linguistic area: all of the major Mesoamerican languages show some subset of a pool of common traits. Mesoamerica's economy and geopolitics benefited from extensive use of a lingua franca, the Nahuatl language, at least since the 7th century, and perhaps even going as far back as 2,000 years. Mesoamerican civilizations included the Olmec, Zapotec, Teotihuacan, Maya civilization, Mixtec, Huastec, Totonac, Toltec, Tarascan, and the Aztec. In some writings from the 1920s and 1930s the alternative term ''Middle America'' was used to refer to Mesoamerica, but that acception of the term has generally fallen out of favor. See Middle America. ==Related topics== : Human antiquity in Mesoamerica : Mesoamerican Mesoamerican chronology, Mesoamerican languages : Zapotec Zapotec calendar, Zapotec mythology : Maya Maya calendar, Maya numerals : Aztec Aztec calendar, Aztec mythology : Mesoamerican practices: Ancient Mesoamerican agriculture, Obsidian use in Mesoamerica, Trephinning in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica : Mesoamerican iconography: The jaguar in Mesoamerican culture : Spanish conquest of: Spanish conquest of Yucatán, Spanish conquest of Michoacán, Spanish conquest of Guatemala ==Bibliography== * Gamio, Manuel. ''La Población del Valle de Teotihuacán.'' Mexico City: Talleres Gráficos de la Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1922. * Kirchhoff, Paul. "Mesoamérica." Acta Americana, 1 (1943):92-107. * Sahagún, Fray Bernardino de. ''Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain''. C. H. Dibble and A. J. O. Anderson, trans., Santa Fe: School of American Research and the University of Utah Press (1950-). * Wauchope, Robert, ed. ''Handbook of Middle American Indians.'' Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964. * Weaver, Muriel Porter, ''The Aztecs, Maya, and Their Predecessors'', Third Edition. New York: Academic Press, 1993. * West, Robert C. and John P. Augelli. ''Middle America: Its Lands and Peoples'', Third Edition. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1989. Pre-Hispanic Mesoamerica ISBN needed
Mesoamerica
The Stone age article claims that the mesoamericans left the stone age circa 2500 BC. So were there bronze age civilizations in the Americas? The Bronze age article lists the time periods that various parts of the world entered the Bronze age, but makes no mention of mesoamerican civilization. The article on Aztecs makes no mention of technology. I'm trying to figure out if the Aztecs, or any other Native American civilizations, had entered the Bronze age. thanks. -User:Lethe | User talk:Lethe 00:12, May 12, 2005 (UTC)
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