what are the ancient civilizations of mexico?
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Ancient Mexico can be said to have produced five major civilizations: the Olmec, Maya, Teotihuacan, Toltec, and Aztec. Unlike other indigenous Mexican societies, these civilizations (with the exception of the politically fragmented Maya) extended their political and cultural reach across Mexico and beyond.
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The Olmecs lived in hot, humid lowlands along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico in what is now southern Veracruz and Tabasco states in southern Mexico. The first evidence of their remarkable art style appears about 1200 bce in San Lorenzo, their oldest known building site.
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The Aztecs built floating gardens while the Maya burnt down forests to plant gardens and the Inca farmed steep areas by building terraces. All three civilizations grew corn, beans, and squash. The Aztec, Maya, and Inca all worshipped many gods and used human sacrifices in their religions.
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['The Aztecs (Montezuma)', 'Brazil (Pedro II)', 'Russia (Catherine)', 'The Shoshone (Pocatello)', 'Denmark (Harald Bluetooth)', 'Egypt (Ramesses II)', 'Siam (Ramkhamhaeng)', 'Polynesia (Kamehameha)']
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The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking people who lived in central Mexico in the 14th to 16th centuries. Their tribute empire spread throughout Mesoamerica. The Maya people lived in southern Mexico and northern Central America — a wide territory that includes the entire Yucatán Peninsula — from as early as 2600 BC.
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Teotihuacan is almost as large as Giza and no one knows who built it. It is said to be about 2,000 years old.
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Seventeen confirmed examples are known from four sites within the Olmec heartland on the Gulf Coast of Mexico. Most colossal heads were sculpted from spherical boulders but two from San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán were re-carved from massive stone thrones.
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The Mexicas (Aztecs) were part of the Nahua people. So, yes, there are still Nahuas in Mexico, and some probably descend from the Mexicas, but that particular Nahua group still resides in Mexico City and the State of Mexico. ... Mayas are also alive and well in Southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras.
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Ancient Civilizations: South America. Hundreds of years before the arrival of European explorers, the ancient civilizations of South America developed rich and innovative cultures that grew in and amongst the geographic features of their landscape. The most famous of these civilizations is the Incan Empire.
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Two thousand years ago, the ancient Maya developed one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas. They developed a written language of hieroglyphs and invented the mathematical concept of zero. With their expertise in astronomy and mathematics, the Maya developed a complex and accurate calendar system.
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['1 Xalapa (or Jalapa) — state capital and a beautiful college town with its colonial architecture.', '2 Catemaco — famous as the witchcraft center of Mexico.', '3 Coatepec.', '4 Coatzacoalcos.', '5 Córdoba.', '6 La Gloria.', '7 Orizaba.', '8 Papantla.']
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The Mayans are an older people and were around a thousand years before the Aztecs even arrived in Central America. ... The Aztecs spoke Nahuatl, while the Mayans spoke Maya. Their names for God too were different. Aztecs called him Quetzalcoatl and the Mayans had Kukulcan.
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Maya pyramids The Maya are a people of southern Mexico and northern Central America (Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras, and El Salvador) with some 3,000 years of history. Archaeological evidence shows the Maya started to build ceremonial architecture approximately 3,000 years ago.
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The Maya, Inca, and Aztecs built great civilizations in Mexico and in Central and South America between 1,800 and 500 years ago. The first of these was the Maya civilization.
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The chance discovery beneath a nearly 2,000-year-old pyramid leads to the heart of a lost civilization. In the fall of 2003, a heavy rainstorm swept through the ruins of Teotihuacán, the pyramid-studded, pre-Aztec metropolis 30 miles northeast of present-day Mexico City.
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Also known as the City of Gods, Teotihuacan is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and home to two of the most famous pyramids in Mexico: The Pyramid of the Sun and the Pyramid of the Moon.