Hist 19 The History of Mexico - Mario G. Valadez TLNANEKO Pochutla CHATINO Pto. Angel NAWAT ....
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Topics Tarascans 1
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Topics
Tarascans
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These city-states ruled the area in and around
the Valley of Mexico
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Mesoamerican Languages
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Mesoamerican Languages
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The Tarascans/ Purepecha
• Relacion de Michoacan
• Origin
• Metallurgy
• Defeated Aztecs 1478
• Characteristics – Few ball courts
– No Tlaloc nor Quetzalcoatl
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Tzintzuntzan Architecture
dominated by a huge platform supporting a row of five temple pyramids called yácatas.
Yacata
http://www.humanities-interactive.org/unknown/ex085_14.html
Copper
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/tarascan.htm