Early Mesoamerican Cities
Subtitle: Urbanism and Urbanization in the Formative Period
Publisher: University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations
Published: 2021
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781108838511
Subjects: America, history
Description: "Ancient Mesoamerica was a land of cities (Fig 1.1.). Above all, it was the number and the density of cities that distinguished Mesoamerica from the complex societies in neighboring areas of North America and lower Central America. Further, although ancient Mesoamerican cities interacted to varying degrees with those cultures to the north and south, they interacted most intensively with one another. It was the shared cultural practices produced by those relationships that define Mesoamerica (Kirchoff 1943; R. Joyce 2004a)"--