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-Aztec Capital
Located on an island in Lake Texcoco in the Valley of Mexico
-Established in the 14th century. |
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-Fields Surrounded by canals (floating gardens)
-Highly productive system that was used by the Aztecs. |
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- from 250 to 930 A.D.
-Coincide with the fluorescence of classic lowland Maya Culture.
-Beginning is marked by the appearance of dated monuments in the southern lowlands.
-Ends with the collapse of Mayan urban centers in the lowlands. |
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-Preclassical farming village in Belize
-Excavations have revealed a long sequence of mud-and-plaster floored houses and their associated yards from the Middle Preclassic Period (1200-1400 B.C.). |
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-Major preclassic Maya urban center located in Northeastern Guatemala.
-Evidence of 2 monumental architectural complexes and may have controlled long-distance trade in the region. |
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| Formative (Preclassic) Period |
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-2000 B.C. to 250 A.D.
-The period during which the earliest complex societies in Mesoamerica appear.
- We see the appearance of the earliest monumental architecture and sculpture in Mesoamerica and the beginnings of urbanism in the region.
- The beginnings of the period is marked by the appearance of pottery-using agriculturalists in Mesoamerica. |
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| A cultural, linguistic, and geographical term that describes the region extending from western Honduras, Nicaragua, and northwest Costa Rica in the south to Mexico. |
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