Epic World History

Pre-Inca Civilizations in Andes Building on the economic, political, cultural, and ideological-religious developments that shaped Andean...

Huaxteca Much of what is known about the Huaxteca, or Huasteca, before the Spanish conquest of Hernán Cortés is because of the work of ...

Southeastern Periphery of Mesoamerica Southeastern Mesoamerica has been so little understood that even the two Mayan sites in the area,...

Postclassic Period of Mesoamerica Postclassic Mesoamerica (900–1500 c.e.) encompassed four principal geographic regions: the Maya zones ...

Mixtecs The Zapotec and Mixtec were groups of Mesoamerican people who inhabited land at different times in the valley of Oaxaca in Mexic...

Quetzalcoatl evokes one of the great tales of Middle American (Mesoamerican) mythology. In Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs of Mexico, ...