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This is a thorough revision of the successful Second Edition and includes both Aztec and Maya areas in one volume. It covers the period from the European settling of the New World to the Spanish Conquest of Mexico in 1521, as well as the deciphering of Maya hieroglyphs that reveal dynastic... read more
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Mesoamerica is a term coined by Paul Kirchhoff in 1943 to refer to a geographical region in the Western Hemisphere that shared a basic cultural unity at the time of the Spanish Conquest in 1521.
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- Muriel Porter Weaver (Author)
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