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History of Mexico
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Civilizations and Introduction Fogl and Foyle
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12th Grade
12/23/2008

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Olmecs
Definition
The _________ emerged on Mexico's southern Gulf Coast around 1200 BC.
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1519
Definition
Spanish arrived in _______ and within twenty years would establish control over the heartland of what would become Mexico.
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Maya, Mexica-Nahua
Definition
The _________ and ______ - _______ civilizations are the best known Mesoamerican civilizations, but much about them remains a mystery.
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Horses, Steel, European Diseases, Greeks
Definition
_____, ______, and ___________ __________ to which natives had no resistance enabled the conquest, but the Spaniards supportive religion, strong institutions, and philosophical structure elaborated over centuries as far back as the ancient _______ made it possible to hold what had been won.
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Ceremonial Centers
Definition
Olmec ____________ __________ located in costal tropical forests could not support an urban population and therefore they depended on surrounding villages.
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Large Stone Heads
Definition
The most puzzling of Olmec artifacts are the _______ _______ _______.
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1492
Definition
The last Moorish bastion of Granada fell in ______.
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Fifty-two-year, lunar
Definition
The Olmec selected the ______ - _____ - ______ cycle wherein the solar day matches up with the _______ day as their equivalent to our century.
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Rain, Plumed, Tlaloc
Definition
The Olmec _____ god and a ________ serpent deity which were known the Mexica as _______ Quetzalcoatl respectively were adopted throughout Mesoamerica.
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Mother culture, Central America, Thousand, Olmecs
Definition
The Olmec are regarded as the ________ ________ of Mesoamerica, a region encompassing Mexico’s southern half and adjoining areas of _______ __________, because the otherwise diverse array of indigenous societies that arose in Mesoamerica over the next ________ years shared cultural traits derived from the _______.
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