Mesoamerica
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Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area in North America. It extends from approximately central Mexico through Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica. Within this region pre-Columbian societies flourished for more than 2000 years before the Spanish colonization of the Americas. Mesoamerica was the site of two of the most profound historical transformations in world history: primary urban generation, and the formation of New World cultures out of the long encounters among Indigenous, European, African and Asian cultures.
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- Americas (terminology)
- Americas
- Central America
- Hispanic America
- Hispanic and Latino Americans
- Indigenous peoples of Mexico
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Latin America
- Mesoamerican region
- Middle America (Americas)
- Painting in the Americas before European colonization
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