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Mesoamerica and its cultural areas. Mesoamerica is a historical region and cultural area that begins in the southern part of North America and extends to the Pacific coast of Central America, thus comprising the lands of central and southern Mexico, all of Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, and parts of Honduras, Nicaragua and Costa Rica.
Mesoamerica is one of only five regions of the world where writing was independently developed. In Central Mexico, the height of the Classic period saw the ascendancy of the city of Teotihuacan , which formed a military and commercial empire whose political influence stretched south into the Maya area and northward.
Location of Mesoamerica in the Americas: this prototypic culture area is situated on the Middle American isthmus, or land bridge, adjoining southern North America with South America. The geography of Mesoamerica describes the geographic features of Mesoamerica , a culture area in the Americas inhabited by complex indigenous pre-Columbian ...
Mesoamerica is one of only five regions of the world where writing was independently developed. In Central Mexico, the height of the Classic period saw the ascendancy of the city of Teotihuacan , which formed a military and commercial empire whose political influence stretched south into the Maya area and northward.
The Maya Lowlands are restricted by the Gulf of Mexico to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the east, and the Maya Highlands to the south and west. [1] The precise northern and eastern limits of the Lowlands are widely agreed upon, being formed by conspicuous bodies of water. [2]
This category is for articles on features of physical geography of the Mesoamerican region, which are relevant to the region's pre-Columbian civilizations and cultures. . "Modern" features, such as states and other subdivisions, post-colonial settlements, dams, etc. would therefore be excl
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