Mesoamerica 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 ...

2025年1月13日 · Mesoamerican 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.

2021年1月22日 · 3 notable Mesoamerican civilizations are: the Olmecs of Mexico (1200-400 BCE), the Classic Maya of Mexico and Central America (250-950 CE), and the Aztecs of Mexico (1345-1521). Is Mesoamerican the same as Aztec?

2024年12月3日 · Mesoamerican civilization Principal 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.

2023年10月30日 · Mesoamerican 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.

2020年7月5日 · Mesoamerican civilization saw the rise and fall of many cultures. Read more to learn about its defining characteristics through time.

2019年6月30日 · Mesoamerica 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 refers to the diverse civilizations that shared similar cultural characteristics in the geographic areas comprising the modern-day countries of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica.

Mesoamerican 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 (Spanish: Mesoamérica) is a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica, within which a number of pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries.