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Bookmark or Share- Pre-Columbian civilizations - Mesoamerica, Aztec, MayaPre-Columbian civilizations - Mesoamerica, Aztec, Maya: The term Mesoamerica denotes the part of Mexico and Central America that was civilized in pre-Spanish times. In many respects, the American Indians who inhabited Mesoamerica were the most advanced native peoples in the Western Hemisphere.
- Mesoamerican civilization summary | BritannicaMesoamerican civilization, Complex of aboriginal cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America before the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. This civilization and the Andean civilization in South America constituted a New World counterpart to those of ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China.
- Mesoamerica - National Geographic SocietyMesoamerica. The historic region of Mesoamerica comprises the modern day countries of northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico. For thousands of years, this area was populated by groups such as the Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec peoples.
- Mesoamerican civilizations: periods and characteristicsMesoamerican civilizations are societies that inhabited the central region of the American continent between 2500 BC and 1521 AD. The name Mesoamerica comes from Greek meaning "middle" or "intermediate", and makes reference to the lands of Central America.
- Mesoamerican Civilizations - World History EncyclopediaCollection. Ancient Mesoamerica (modern-day Mexico and Central America) witnessed an extraordinary flourishing of cultures from the beginnings of the Olmec civilization around 1200 BCE, through the Maya civilization and on to the catastrophic fall of the Aztec civilization in the 16th century CE.
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