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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction
Chapter 1: Mesoamerican Civilizations
Early Hunters (to 6500 BC)
Incipient Agriculture (6500–1500 BC)
Early Formative Period (1500–900 BC)
Teosinte
Early Village Life
Early Religious Life
The Rise of Olmec Civilization
The Olmec Colossal Heads
Middle Formative Period (900–300 BC)
Olmec Civilization at La Venta
Olmec Colonization in the Middle Formative
Early Monte Albán
The Valley of Mexico in the Middle Formative
The Maya in the Middle Formative
Late Formative Period (300 BC–AD 100)
Valley of Mexico
Valley of Oaxaca
Veracruz and Chiapas
Izapan Civilization
The Earliest Maya Civilization of the Lowlands
World Tree
Chapter 2: The Maya: Classic Period
Early Classic Period (AD 100–600)
Teotihuacán
Quetzalcóatl
Cholula
Classic Central Veracruz
Southern Veracruz
Classic Monte Albán
The Maya Highlands and Pacific Coast
Classic Civilization in the Maya Lowlands: Tzakol Phase
Late Classic Mesoamerica (600–900)
Late Classic Lowland Maya Settlement Pattern
Major Sites
Maya Art of the Late Classic
Tikal
Mayan Hieroglyphic Writing
The Maya Calendar
The Maya Codices
Classic Maya Religion
Creation
Popol Vuh
Cosmology
The Gods
Death
Eschatology
Sacrifice
Cenote
The Priesthood
Rites
Sorcery
Society and Political Life
The Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization
Chapter 3: The Toltec and the Aztec, Post-Classic Period (900–1519)
Society, Culture, and Technology
Knowledge and Belief
The Historical Annals
The Rise of the Aztec
The Question of the Toltec
Archaeological Remains of Post-Classic Civilization
Tula
Chichén Itzá
Archaeological Unity of the Post-Classic
Aztec Culture to the Time of the Spanish Conquest
Accounts Written by the Conquistadores
Postconquest Histories
The Codices
Nahuatl Language
Official Ecclesiastical and Government Records
Agriculture
Obsidian
Social and Political Organization
The Aztec Capital: Tenochtitlán
Aztec Religion
Ball Court
Nagual
Aztec Ritual Calendar
Chapter 4: Andean Civilization
The Nature of Andean Civilization
Agricultural Adaptation
The Cold as a Resource
Quechuan Languages
The Highlands and the Low Countries
The Pre-Inca Periods
The Late Preceramic
The Initial Period
The Early Horizon
Chavín
The Early Intermediate Period
The Three Main Arts of South America
The Middle Horizon
Machu Picchu
The Late Intermediate Period
Arts of Tiwanaku
Chapter 5: The Inca
The Origins and Expansion of the Inca State
The Nature of the Sources
Quipu
Settlement in the Cuzco Valley
The Beginnings of External Expansion
Quechua
Internal Division and External Expansion
Administration of the Empire
Topa Inca Yupanqui
Huayna Capac
Civil War on the Eve of the Spanish Conquest
The Spanish Conquest
Inca Culture at the Time of the Conquest
Social and Political Structure
Inca Technology and Intellectual Life
Inca Religion
The Art of Ancient Ecuador
Conclusion
Appendix: Selected Gods of the New World
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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