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| Preface | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The geographic setting | |
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| Languages and peoples | |
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| Periods | |
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| Early Hunters | |
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| The Archaic Period | |
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| The Desert Culture in North America | |
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| The origins of Mexican cultivated plants | |
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| The importance of maize | |
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| Other cultigens | |
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| Caves and rockshelters of northeastern Mexico | |
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| Santa Marta rockshelter | |
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| The Tehuacan Valley | |
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| Other Archaic sites | |
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| The Archaic period and the origins of settled life | |
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| The Preclassic Period: Early Villagers | |
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| The Early Preclassic in Chiapas | |
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| Early Preclassic villagers in Oaxaca | |
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| The site of Tlatilco | |
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| Established villages of the Middle Preclassic | |
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| Late Preclassic cultures of the central highlands | |
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| The Mezcala puzzle | |
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| The shaft-tomb art of western Mexico and the Teuchitlan Tradition | |
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| The Preclassic Period: Early Civilizations | |
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| Background of civilized life | |
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| The Olmec civilization | |
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| The San Lorenzo Olmecs | |
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| El Manat� | |
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| The Olmecs of La Venta | |
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| Chiapa de Corzo - a La Venta outlier? | |
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| Tres Zapotes and the Long Count calendar | |
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| The Olmecs beyond the heartland | |
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| Early Zapotec civilization | |
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| Izapan civilization | |
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| La Mojarra and the Isthmian script | |
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| The Classic Period | |
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| Rise of the great civilizations | |
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| The urban civilization of Teotihuacan | |
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| The Great Pyramid of Cholula | |
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| Cerro de las Mesas | |
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| Classic Monte Alb�n and Classic Veracruz civilization | |
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| The Classic downfall | |
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| The Epiclassic Period | |
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| The Maya connection: Cacaxtla and Xochicalco | |
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| Cholula | |
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| Cantona | |
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| El Taj�n | |
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| Central Veracruz | |
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| Valley of Oaxaca | |
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| Northwestern Mexico | |
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| The end of the Epiclassic | |
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| The Post-Classic Period: The Toltec State | |
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| A time of troubles | |
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| The Chichimeca of northern Mexico | |
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| Tula and the Toltecs | |
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| The Toltec annals | |
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| Archaeological Tula | |
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| Tula and Chich'en Itza | |
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| The Post-Classic Period: Rival States | |
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| Late Zapotec culture at Mitla | |
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| The Mixtecs | |
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| The Huastec | |
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| The Tarascan kingdom | |
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| Casas Grandes and the northern trade route | |
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| The rise of the Aztec state | |
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| The consolidation of Aztec power | |
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| The Aztecs in 1519 | |
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| The island city | |
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| Aztec society | |
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| The long-distance merchants | |
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| Becoming an Aztec | |
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| Marriage | |
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| The Triple Alliance and the Empire | |
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| The emperor and the palace | |
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| Food and agriculture | |
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| War and human sacrifice | |
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| Aztec religion | |
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| Aztec art and architecture | |
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| Aztec thought and literature | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| The Spanish Conquest | |
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| New Spain and the Colonial world | |
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| The "ladinoization" of Mexico | |
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| Aftermath | |
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| Visiting Mexico | |
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| Chronological Table | |
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| Reigning Monarchs of the Aztec State | |
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| Text References | |
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| Further Reading | |
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| Sources of Illustrations | |
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| Index | |