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Bookmark or Share- What is Mesoamerica? - ThoughtCoMesoamerica is commonly divided into five different cultural areas: West Mexico, the Central Highlands, Oaxaca, the Gulf region, and the Maya area. The term Mesoamerica was originally coined by Paul Kirchhoff, a German-Mexican anthropologist, in 1943.
- Mesoamerica - Education | National Geographic SocietyThe 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, whose descendants still live there today.
- Mesoamerica - WikipediaMesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica. [1][2][3][4] As a cultural area, Mesoamerica ...
- Mesoamerican civilization | History, Olmec, & Maya | BritannicaMesoamerican civilization, the complex of indigenous cultures that developed in parts of Mexico and Central America prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century.
- Pre-Columbian civilizations - Mesoamerica, Aztec, Maya | BritannicaPrincipal sites of Mesoamerican civilization. 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.
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