Region

Mesoamerica

Americas

Mesoamerica is the historical and cultural macro-region stretching from central Mexico through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica, defined by the shared civilizational legacy of the Olmec, Maya, Zapotec, Aztec and other pre-Columbian peoples. Its unifying traits include a distinctive calendar system, monumental pyramid architecture, maize-based agriculture and a network of trade and ritual practices that bound its many separate polities together for millennia before European contact.

Facts

Classification

Region Type

Historical Region (No Current Administrative Function) 1

Region Type

Historical Region (No Current Administrative Function) 1

Region Type

Cultural Region 1

Region Type

Cultural Region 1

Connections

Shaped By

Volcanism

Source Mesoamerica (Wikipedia)

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Same As

Mesoamerica

Also in Divinity Atlas: the same subject.

Origin Of

Boll Weevil

Also in Agriculture and Farming Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Talud-Tablero

Also in Architecture and Design Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Cacao

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Theobroma Cacao (Wikipedia)tier 2

Chayote

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Chocolate

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Chocolate (Encyclopaedia Britannica)

Hominy

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Mexican Cuisine

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidsontier 1

Nixtamalization

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Nixtamalization (Wikipedia)Lead paragraphtier 2

Quote, Lead paragraph

The process of nixtamalization was first developed in Mesoamerica, where maize was originally cultivated.

Nixtamalization

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Nixtamalization (Wikipedia)tier 2

Tamale

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Tamale (Wikipedia)tier 3

Tomato

Also in Food and Drink Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source The Oxford Companion to FoodAlan Davidsontier 1

Maya peoples

Also in Society and Culture Atlas: which originated in this subject.

Source Wikipedia: Maya peoplesLead sectiontier 3

Quote, Lead section

Maya ( MY-ə, Spanish: [ˈmaʝa]) are an ethnolinguistic group of Indigenous peoples in Mesoamerica.

Location Of

The Invention of Writing

Also in History Atlas: which took place in this subject.