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GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF MESOAMERICA - Coggle Diagram
GREAT CIVILIZATIONS OF MESOAMERICA
Location
From central of Mexico to Costa Rica
Common characteristics
It's rulers proclamated themselves as intermediaries with Gods or directly as sons of God
Gods were represented as mythological beings.
They usually made human sacrifices to their Gods
They based their substinence on agriculture
Society was divided into very marked social classes
Olmecs
First civilization (1200 B.C)
Mexican coast
First Mesoamerican pyramid Monumental ead carved in stone
Calendar: (365 days divided into 18 monts of 20 days each one plus five days at the end of the year)
They created the first ball game
Mayas (600 B.C)
South and Southeast of Mexico
Expanded to Peten (Guatemala and Belize)
The city El Mirador had the Highest pyramid
Invented the zero and writing with logograms
In Yucatan, other Mayan cities emerged such as Chichen Itza
Mayan cities colapse ocurred because: Cities doue to a prolonged drought of corn cultivation.
Zapotecas (800 B.C)
South of Oaxaca and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
South of Oaxaca and the Isthmus of Tehuantepec
Buildings, stadiums for ball games.
Mexicas or Aztecas
Located at the current Mexico city
Tehotihuacan (300 B.C- 950 A.C)
Aztecs
Toltecas (950 A.C- 1200 A.C): Capital Tula
A rulers dinasty dominated the Mexico valley
The Aztecan empire expansion started in 1427 with the Triple Aliance
The capital had around 250.000 inhabitants
Ended with the arrival of the Spanish