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Mexican Prehispanic Cultures

Tikál, Guatemala

• Mexico City
  • Tenochtitlán
    • Aztec capital
    • Tlatiloco
      • the most important market district
      • 60,000 vendors
    • Xochimilco, the "Floating Gardens"
    • Zocalo ("Constitution Square")
      
      
• Monte Albán
  • Zapotec
  • later Mixtec
    
    
• Teotihuacán
  • Teotihuacános
  • "Birthplace of the Fifth Sun"
  • ca. 300 B.C. - A.D. 900
  • Quetzalcoatl Temple
  • "Pyramid of the Sun"
  • "Pyramid of the Moon"
  • "Avenue of the Dead"
    
    

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• Toltec
  
  

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Cultures:

• Olmec
  
  
• Zapotec
  • Monte Albán
    
    
• Tarascan
  • Michoacan
  • Tzintzuntán
    
    
• Teotihuacáos
  
  
• Toltec
  • "Skilled Laborer, Artist, Wise Man"
  • A.D. 900 - 1200
  • Tula
    
    
• Aztec
  • calpulli
    
    
• Maya
  
  
• Chichimecs
  
  
• Mixtec
  
  
• Yaqui
  • Dance of the Deer

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Terms:

• "Mesoamerica"
• syncretism
• tiangus,
  • traditional markets
• Chacmool
• atlantes
• Popol Vuh,
  • sacred writings of the Maya
• ball game

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Notes:

• National Museum of Anthropology
  
  
• It is estimated that there are 56 different cultural groups, each one with its own language
  
  
• the attire of a person shows the person's status and group

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