Mesoamerica - Wikipedia
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.
Mesoamerican civilization | History, Olmec, & Maya | Britannica
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.
What is Mesoamerica? - ThoughtCo
2019年6月30日 · The term Mesoamerica is derived from the Greek and means "Middle America." It refers to a geographical and cultural area which extends from central Mexico down through Central America, including the territory which is now made up of the countries of Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador.
Mesoamerica - National Geographic Society
The historic region of Mesoamerica comprises the modern day countries of northern Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and central to southern Mexico. For thousands of years, this area was populated by groups such as the Olmec, Zapotec, Maya, Toltec, and Aztec peoples, whose descendants still live there today.
Geography of Mesoamerica - Wikipedia
Mesoamerica – meaning "middle of America" – is located in the mid-latitudes (between 10° and 22° N) of the Americas in the southern portion of North America, encompassing much of the isthmus that joins it with South America.
Mesoamérica: qué es y sus características - Enciclopedia …
Mesoamérica es una región histórica del continente americano que comprende la mayor parte de América Central (los actuales países de El Salvador, Guatemala, Belice y partes de Honduras, Nicaragua y Costa Rica) y el centro-sur de México.
Mesoamerican civilizations: periods and characteristics
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.
Pre-Columbian civilizations - Mesoamerica, Aztec, Maya | Britannica
2024年12月3日 · 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.
Smarthistory – Mesoamerica, an introduction
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.
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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.