
Explore the rise and fall of the Zapotecs, a key pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica.
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Explore the rise and fall of the Zapotecs, a key pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica.
Zapotec CivilizationThe Zapotecs formed one of the most important of the pre-Columbian civilizations. For one thousand years, their main city of Monte Albán was one of the largest and most sophisticated in Mesoamerica. Building this city was an astonishing engineering feat-it involved flattening a hill in the center of the Oaxaca Valley to create an artificial plateau and then constructing a series of large, ornate buildings on this inaccessible site. Maintaining this large city on a site with n...
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