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Mexico
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...History In prehistory Mexico formed the greater part of ancient Mesoamerica, within which arose a succession of related civilizations...American viceroyalty, eventually including all of ancient Mesoamerica, northern Mexico, the Caribbean, and most of the south...
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Agriculture, American Indian
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...goosefoot, and sump weed or marsh elder. Ancient farmers in Mesoamerica domesticated corn, or Zea mays, the cultivation of which...mature in a growing season that averaged from 200 days in Mesoamerica to 60 days in the northern Great Plains. They also bred...
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Quetzalcóatl
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...Quetzalcóatl One of the chief gods of ancient Mesoamerica (Mexico and northern Central America). The word...AZTEC high priest. As a god he was known throughout Mesoamerica and was called Kukulkán by the MAYA . Images...
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Poverty Point
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...buttons, stone blades struck from prepared cores, and petaloid greenstone celts are among artifacts that suggest contact with Mesoamerica, but such contact is fiercely debated. In spite of extensive research, much of this remarkable site and the people associated...
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Mississippi cultures
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...daub houses of farmers. Inspiration for these ceremonial centres was ultimately derived from the cultures of Mexico (Mesoamerica), but exactly how is unclear. Famous sites include Cahokia (Illinois), Aztalan (Wisconsin), and Macon (Georgia...
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Religion: Latin America
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...their descendants in return for offerings, or more frightening forms in which hungry deities preyed upon hapless humans. In Mesoamerica, long traditions of blood sacrifice to the gods could take the minor form of a few drops of blood from a pierced earlobe...
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Astronomy, Pre-Columbian and Latin American
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...which the Maya still employ in the early 2000s, predated the long count by several centuries. Widespread throughout Mesoamerica yet unknown in the Old World, this 260-day round consisted of a series of twenty day-names preceded by numerical coefficients...
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Diffusion, Cultural
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...Paul Tolstoy, who pointed out striking cultural parallels between the manufacture of bark cloth in Southeast Asia and in Mesoamerica. On the theoretical plane, Tolstoy drew an important distinction between diffusion as explanation (arguable) and diffusion...
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Empire and Imperialism: Americas
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...history of empires, although archaeologists argue fiercely about when the incipient civilizations that can be identified in Mesoamerica and the Andean regions thousands of years before the arrival of Europeans became imperial powers. What is uncontested...
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Mexico, Gulf of
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
...arrived in the Americas. Diverse native societies once ringed the gulf, including complex Maya and Aztec civilizations in Mesoamerica, and Calusa, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Natchez, and Karankawa peoples in what became the United States. Spain first explored...
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