Made from the beans of the tropical plant Theobroma cacao, cocoa was a favorite drink of ancient Maya and Aztec people in Mesoamerica. |
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The Penutian language group of Western America is related to the languages of the Maya and the Zoque of Mesoamerica. |
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In Egypt pyramids were used as monumental tombs, whereas in Mesopotamia, Mesoamerica, and South America they were temple platforms. |
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The Incas of Peru were one of the most advanced civilizations in pre-Columbian America, rivalled only by the Mayans and the Aztecs of Mesoamerica. |
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The language families of Mesoamerica are Mayan, Mixe-Zoquean, Otomanguean, Tequistlatecan, Totonacan, Uto-Aztecan, and Xinkan. |
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This tomb was especially significant as it appeared to be the oldest-known pyramid tomb in Mesoamerica, dating back some 2,700 years. |
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Its programming reflects the diverse needs of Mesoamerica, the Caribbean, and South America. |
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For Mesoamerica, evidently, the foodways described under Aztec food and Maya food have constituted important culinary traditions whose influence can still be detected. |
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Special efforts should be made in Mesoamerica where no country currently has a DLDD-specific national monitoring system. |
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In that category, it trails the Brazilian Cerrado, the Tropical Andes, and Mesoamerica. |
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This southern boundary coincides in a general way with the northern margins of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. |
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Anthropologists refer to the Middle American culture hearth as Mesoamerica, which extended southeast from the vicinity of present-day Mexico City to central Nicaragua. |
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A regional process has focused on Mesoamerica, southern Africa, and in 2007 the Middle East. |
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Several regional offices of IUCN serve, and collaborate directly with, the region, especially the Regional Office for Mesoamerica and the IUCN-USA Multilateral Office. |
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Fragments from prehistoric wattle and daub buildings have been found in Africa, Europe, Mesoamerica and North America. |
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One textbook about the art of this era is Mary Ellen Miller's The Art of Mesoamerica. |
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In religious terms, the snake and jaguar are arguably the most important animals in ancient Mesoamerica. |
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The Native American societies of Mesoamerica occupied the land ranging from central Mexico in the north to Costa Rica in the south. |
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The cultures of Panama traded with both Mesoamerica and South America and can be considered transitional between those two cultural areas. |
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In Mesoamerica, wild teosinte was domesticated to maize by 6,000 years ago. |
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The concept has been applied to understand the organization of societies from Mesoamerica and the Moluccas to North Africa and medieval Europe. |
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In Mesoamerica, the Teotihuacan civilization fell and the Classic Maya collapse occurred. |
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In common with the rest of Mesoamerica, the Maya believed in a supernatural realm inhabited by an array of powerful deities. |
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The synchroneity of horizon unifications and alternating regionalizations in Mesoamerica and the Andean region is striking and prompts the question of communication between these two areas of pre-Columbian high civilization. |
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Increasing sedentariness is also to be seen in the remarkable bowls and globular jars painstakingly pecked from stone, for pottery was as yet unknown in Mesoamerica. |
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A new dendrochronological study conducted in 2011 by David Stahle of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville produced the longest and most precise climate reconstruction for Mesoamerica to date. |
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Our beautiful bird carries on his wings the fascinating cultural histories of the Aztecs and Mayans of Mesoamerica and the Algonquin and Iroquois Nations of the Eastern Woodlands. |
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South American dances resemble those of Mesoamerica. |
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Agriculture in Mesoamerica was advanced and complex. |
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Conditions were ideal for the large herds of grazing mammals that roamed Mesoamerica, especially in the highland valleys, much of which consisted of cool, wet grasslands not unlike the plains of the northern United States. |
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Our Office, the UNODC, supports these efforts in Central and West Asia, in the Gulf, in West Africa, along the main drug routes into Europe and across Mesoamerica. |
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The meeting resulted in the agreement by the States Parties on a sub-regional Action Plan for strengthening the credibility of the World Heritage List in Mesoamerica and Mexico. |
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The impact of desertification can be seen all over the world, be it in the Sahel, Asia, Mesoamerica, across the Caribbean, throughout North America or along the Mediterranean. |
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Regional Office for Mesoamerica and the Caribbean Initiative. |
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It was the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system of more than a dozen systems that developed in Mesoamerica. |
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The major political and cultural center of Mesoamerica in the Early Classic period was Teotihuacan. |
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Though blood sacrifice was common in Mesoamerica, the scale of human sacrifice under the Aztecs was likely unprecedented in the region. |
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By 300 BCE, this culture was eclipsed by other emerging civilizations in Mesoamerica. |
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It is believed to have originated with the Nahua, Huastec and Otomi peoples in central Mexico, and then spread throughout most of Mesoamerica. |
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Tenochtitlan can be considered the most complex society in Mesoamerica in regard to social stratification. |
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Finally, the pochteca were merchants who traveled all of Mesoamerica trading. |
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The small natural island was perpetually enlarged as Tenochtitlan grew to become the largest and most powerful city in Mesoamerica. |
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After a flood of Lake Texcoco, the city was rebuilt under the rule of Ahuitzotl in a style that made it one of the grandest ever in Mesoamerica. |
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Cultivation was well established in Mesoamerica before the Spanish arrived. |
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Sculpture in what is now Latin America developed in two separate and distinct areas, Mesoamerica in the north and Peru in the south. |
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The Aztec Empire came to dominate much of Mesoamerica in the 14th and 15th centuries. |
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Spain claimed the rest of South America, Mesoamerica, and southern North America. |
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Mexican literature has its antecedents in the literatures of the indigenous settlements of Mesoamerica. |
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Modern Mexican literature was influenced by the concepts of the Spanish colonialization of Mesoamerica. |
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There is also over 500 species of plants with some of the most important concentration of aquatic plants in Mesoamerica. |
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In the Postclassic, the Maya engaged in a flourishing slave trade with wider Mesoamerica. |
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The Maya engaged in long distance trade across the Maya region, and across greater Mesoamerica and beyond. |
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Within Mesoamerica beyond the Maya area, trade routes particularly focused on central Mexico and the Gulf coast. |
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Trade routes not only supplied physical goods, they facilitated the movement of people and ideas throughout Mesoamerica. |
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Owing to its location, the present territory of Colombia was a corridor of early human migration from Mesoamerica and the Caribbean to the Andes and Amazon basin. |
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The indigenous societies of Mesoamerica brought under Spanish control were of unprecedented complexity and wealth from what they had encountered in the Caribbean. |
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In Mesoamerica, a tiered system of traders developed independently. |
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While disease raged swiftly through the densely populated empires of Mesoamerica, the more scattered populations of North America saw a slower spread. |
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The large, lumpy variety of tomato, a mutation from a smoother, smaller fruit, originated in Mesoamerica, and may be the direct ancestor of some modern cultivated tomatoes. |
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Mesoamerica was one of six cradles of civilization worldwide. |
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The diverse climate allowed for wide variation in available crops, but all regions of Mesoamerica cultivated the base crops of maize, beans, and squashes. |
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Aztecs and other peoples in Mesoamerica used the fruit in their cooking. |
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Agriculture originated and spread in several different areas including the Middle East, Asia, Mesoamerica, and the Andes beginning as early as 12,000 years ago. |
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Major Maya sites from this era include Copan, where numerous stelae were carved, and Quirigua where the largest stelae of Mesoamerica are located along with zoomorphic altars. |
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Social Memory in Ancient and Colonial Mesoamerica, by Amos Megged. |
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Around the 10th century AD, metallurgy arrived in Mesoamerica from South America, and the Maya began to make small objects in gold, silver and copper. |
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Teotihuacan, with its huge pyramids of the Sun and the Moon, its palaces, temples, homes, workshops, markets and avenues, is the largest pre-Hispanic city in Mesoamerica. |
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