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Great civilizations of Mesoamerica - Coggle Diagram
Great civilizations of Mesoamerica
There were important political organizations (empires) in two zones:
Mesoamerica, which is a region that stretches from central Mexico to Costa Rica,
and the Andean America. Some of these organizations were really impressive for
the quality of their architecture and art.
Like the Old World empires, those in America had common features, although there
were also differences:
They were born after an evolution of centuries. They reached their peak and
declined. Some of them declined abruptly.
Its rulers proclaimed themselves intermediaries with the Gods or directly as
sons of God.
These Gods were represented as mythological beings, a mixture of man and
animal or of different animals.
THE OLMECS, THE FIRST TO FORM STATES
It was the first culture to emerge on the coast of
Mexico, around 1200 BC and it would have to be the
longest lasting: one thousand years.
THE ZAPOTECAS
This civilization was developed just around 800 B.C., in the south of Oaxaca and the
isthmus of Tehuantepec. I
THE MAYAS
Their ancestors began around 600 B.C. in the south and
southeast of Mexico, and expanded in the Peten area,
currently Guatemala and Belize (200 B.C.), with cities such
as Nakbe,
MEXICAS OR AZTECS
Where today the city of Mexico is located, there were important pre-Columbian
cultures in the past. The Teotihuacan pyramids were located very close where the
current city of Mexico is placed. It was a product of a civilization that was developed
from 300 B.C. up to 650 A.D. This civilization emerged again and declined in 950.
