The Influence of Mesoamerican People in Today’s World
All civilizations are different from each other and the way they influence the other civilizations around them too. It’s a combination of different elements like the culture, the region, the weather, the religion, the food, the inventions, the ideas, the ages and so on.
One way to influence another culture, which is very common through history is to defeat the other’s civilization. For example: the Aztecs by the Spanish or the Egyptians by the Romans. They destroy the other’s cultures and they enforce their own.
Another way of civilizations influence is through commercial trades. Which is very common in history until these days. Little by little the culture of a civilization is influenced …show more content…
and 2000 B.C.E., Central and Middle America had drastic climate changes happening. Because of that hunting large animals, became harder and also, because a lot of them got extinct. So, humans had to start adapting to nature’s new conditions and start hunting small animals, for example. They also found a new way to feed themselves: planting and harvesting. They started cultivating foods like: beans, corn and so on. Because of the farming style, humans became a little bit more sedentary. Leading them to create new tool and process in order to cultivate their food. “The transition from hunting and gathering to settled village life occurred gradually in Mesoamerica during the Archaic period… Between 5000 and 2500 B.C.E. villages began to appear in both highland and lowland regions of Mesoamerica.” (The Heritage of World Civilizations - Pg 373) All these villages, started to become incredible civilizations that are a mystery to us until these days.
They include the people like: The Toltecs, The Mayans, The Incas, The Aztecs and so on. Even though their civilization was destroyed by other civilizations, we still carry a lot of their knowledge and few cultural costumes with us. Mesoamerican civilizations is an expression found in the texts that refera to this period, it is not a geographic delimitation, but only a historical and anthropological reference corresponding to most of the current: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, where, over many centuries, lived powerful
All civilizations are different from each other and the way they influence the other civilizations around them too. It’s a combination of different elements like the culture, the region, the weather, the religion, the food, the inventions, the ideas, the ages and so on.
One way to influence another culture, which is very common through history is to defeat the other’s civilization. For example: the Aztecs by the Spanish or the Egyptians by the Romans. They destroy the other’s cultures and they enforce their own.
Another way of civilizations influence is through commercial trades. Which is very common in history until these days. Little by little the culture of a civilization is influenced …show more content…
and 2000 B.C.E., Central and Middle America had drastic climate changes happening. Because of that hunting large animals, became harder and also, because a lot of them got extinct. So, humans had to start adapting to nature’s new conditions and start hunting small animals, for example. They also found a new way to feed themselves: planting and harvesting. They started cultivating foods like: beans, corn and so on. Because of the farming style, humans became a little bit more sedentary. Leading them to create new tool and process in order to cultivate their food. “The transition from hunting and gathering to settled village life occurred gradually in Mesoamerica during the Archaic period… Between 5000 and 2500 B.C.E. villages began to appear in both highland and lowland regions of Mesoamerica.” (The Heritage of World Civilizations - Pg 373) All these villages, started to become incredible civilizations that are a mystery to us until these days.
They include the people like: The Toltecs, The Mayans, The Incas, The Aztecs and so on. Even though their civilization was destroyed by other civilizations, we still carry a lot of their knowledge and few cultural costumes with us. Mesoamerican civilizations is an expression found in the texts that refera to this period, it is not a geographic delimitation, but only a historical and anthropological reference corresponding to most of the current: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Costa Rica, where, over many centuries, lived powerful