Download - Mesoamerican Wall

Transcript
Page 1: Mesoamerican Wall
Page 2: Mesoamerican Wall
Page 3: Mesoamerican Wall
Page 4: Mesoamerican Wall
Page 5: Mesoamerican Wall

Mesoamerica as seen in the maps

extends approximately from central

Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El

Salvador, Honduras,

Nicaragua, and northern Costa

Rica, within which pre-Columbian

societies flourished before

the Spanish colonization of the

Americas in the

A typical Mesoamerican meal basically consists of maize/corn

and beans with depending viand. These were the common crops

cultivated. Many other plants were also cultivated in Mesoamerica such as tomatoes, avocados,

guavas, chili peppers, manioc, agave, and prickly pear were all

cultivated as additional food resources, while rubber trees and

cotton plants were useful for making cultural products like

rubber balls and clothing. Another culturally important plant was the cacao. Cacao beans were used as money, and later, the beans were used for making another valuable

Food and Writi

BeliefsFun