RE100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Indigenism, Intercropping, Mesoamerican Chronology
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Includes most of mexico, all of guatemala, honduras, el salvador, and belize, northern. Nicaragua, and enclaves located even further south in central america. Cultural influences of mesoamerica extend much farther into north, south and middle. America in ancient times, and now all over the world. A geographic area, cultural area, linguistic area, and political-religious (cid:862)(cid:449)orld syste(cid:373)(cid:863) where people interacted through interlinked cores and peripheries. No one empire ever ruled until after the spanish invasion largest empire was the. Mexhica-te(cid:374)o(cid:272)h(cid:272)a (cid:894)azte(cid:272)s(cid:895) (cid:272)o(cid:374)trolled less tha(cid:374) half of the mesoa(cid:373)eri(cid:272)a"s (cid:272)ore area, about half of which was conquered after diseases brought by columbus devastated the. Linguistic area with diverse languages, belonging to multiple languages families have come to share various features: vigesimal (base-20) counting-system, no(cid:373)i(cid:374)al possessio(cid:374) of the type (cid:862)its-(cid:271)ook of authority(cid:863, relational nouns, non-verbal-final basic world order, widespread sematic calques. Political-religious (cid:862)(cid:449)orld syste(cid:373)(cid:863): reasons of commerce, ritual, mutual alliance, conquest and tribute. 3 crucial cores: general mexico, highland guatemala lowland guatemala.
