Mesoamerican Cultures
The people who inhabited Central America formed a number of advanced civilizations between 1500 B.C. and A.D. 1200. As one civilization faded in the region, another developed to take its place. Later civilizations borrowed many aspects of culture from earlier civilizations, as well as creating their own unique traditions.
Historians call these civilizations the Mesoamerican cultures. The word ‘meso’ means ‘middle’. These peoples all lived in middle America.
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H. L. Mencken
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The Rosetta Stone, discovered during Napoleon''s invasion of Egypt, carved in 196 BC, was the key to understanding Egyptian hieroglyphics, because it repeated a royal decree in three different scripts, one of which was Greek. From the Greek the other two could be deciphered.
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