The Zapotecs: Princes, Priests, and Peasants (Civilization of the American Indian Series)

by Joseph W. Whitecotton

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The Zapotecs, Or 'Cloud People', Lived in the southern highlands of central Mesoamerica, iOaxaca,from the late Preclassic period to the end of the Classic period (500 BCE - 900 CE). Their capital was first at Monte Albán and then at Mitla, they dominated the southern highlands, spoke a variation of the Oto-Zapotecan language, and profited from trade and cultural links with the Olmec, Teotihuacan and Maya civilization.

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970.004History & geographyHistory of North AmericaHistory of North AmericaNorth AmericaEthnic and National Groups
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F1221 .Z3 .W48Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin AmericaLatin America. Spanish AmericaMexicoAntiquities. Indians
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