mesoamerica

Babylon), it's pretty unlikely there was any direct contact that could have spread the use of zero to mesoamerica.

Could you explain where you got the idea that the Spanish as a whole respected indigenous culture in mesoamerica?

On the other hand, it’s basically impossible to have large organized civilization in Mesoamerica without hominy[1].

It was not deciphered again until the 1970s and it's sadly still not widely appreciated that Mesoamerica had literate civilizations.

The history of Mexico and mesoamerica in general is fascinating.

There are some pretty reprehensible people who have sown chaos and destruction in places like Africa or mesoamerica, who have since taken refuge in the U.

The earliest pyramids in mesoamerica currently known are about half the age claimed in the BBC article.

I had no idea about the extent to which civilization had persisted in Mesoamerica before I spent half a day wandering around this museum.

I'm not sure that the difference in required agricultural techniques between Mesopotamia and Europe was actually any smaller than the difference in required agricultural techniques between Mesoamerica and North America.

Granted, agricultural societies existed in North America too, but aside from the pueblos in New Mexico and some urbanized communities associated with the Mississippi Valley Civilization and its offshoots, the population density and urbanization didn't compare to Mesoamerica and the Andes.

For example, the Mayan civilization collapsed about 500 years before the Spanish showed up due to the worst drought in something like 7k years, so people have speculated about what Mesoamerica might have looked like when contact was made of those millions of people hadn’t died.

I wouldn't call the Aztecs genocidal either, despite the ritual sacrifices, brutal treatment of other peoples, and everybody in mesoamerica who came to know them hating them so much that they preferred the uncertain fate of joining the white bearded men from the east.

I don't know much about Mesoamerica but I believe the "30 languages" claim refers to the count of current languages descended from a single ancestor, not the languages of Classic Maya.

The Chiclets name is derived from the Mexican Spanish word "chicle", derived from the Aztec Nahuatl word "chictli/tzictli", meaning "sticky stuff" and referring to a pre-Columbian chewing gum found throughout Mesoamerica.

Edit1: from the source: "Rather, and as Hernandez said (1950: 40), the ancient inhabitants of Mesoamerica did not apply the concept of revolving movement to transportation “simply because they did not want to, because of atavistic concepts worthy of being taken into account.” In a perceptive way, Hernández emphasized the indigenous ethos towards sacrifice and the offering of physical effort to the deities.

Most native Americans throughout both continents— especially those in Mesoamerica—were powerful civilisations in their own right with plenty of agricultural history.

Dogs weren't used for physical labor in Mesoamerica, but they had large breeds like the loberro that were large and strong enough.

Agreed and besides Europe the Catholic Church destroyed much of the history of Mesoamerica.