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Multicultural Mexico: Indigenous Mesoamerica

01 Friday Apr 2016

Posted by Victor H. Garza 高山 in Culture

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Anahuac was the name given by the Aztecs to the “land surrounded by water” (the Gulf of Mexico on one side and the Pacific Ocean on the other), which culturists and historians refer to as Mesoamerica. When the Spanish Conquerors and Priests arrived to “Anahuac” they start to call the region “New Spain” until the time of independence when we started calling our nation: Mexico. Although the name “Anahuac” comes from Nahuatl (the language spoken by the Aztecs), Mesoamerica was composed by the following cultures; Aztec, Huastec, Maya, Mixtec, Olmec, Purepecha, Tarascan, Toltecs, Totonac and Zapotec making the region a truly multicultural part of the Americas!

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Hoy en día conocemos a nuestro país con el nombre de México. Durante la época colonial se le conocía a nuestro territorio como la Nueva España y antes de la llegada de los conquistadores y misioneros españoles, los indígenas Aztecas utilizaban la palabra Anáhuac para denominar al territorio “rodeado de agua” (por un lado el Golfo de México y por el otro el Océano Pacífico). Históricamente hoy nos referimos a esta zona cultural con el nombre de “Mesoamérica”. Aunque la palabra “Anáhuac” es de origen Náhuatl, en “Mesoamérica” han vivido personas pertenecientes a distintas culturas tales como la Huasteca, Maya, Mexica, Mixteca, Olmeca, Purépecha, Tarasca, Tolteca, Totonaca y Zapoteca. Durante muchos décadas y quizá siglos ha existido el intercambio cultural en Mesoamérica.

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