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| The _________ emerged on Mexico's southern Gulf Coast around 1200 BC. |
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| Spanish arrived in _______ and within twenty years would establish control over the heartland of what would become Mexico. |
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| The _________ and ______ - _______ civilizations are the best known Mesoamerican civilizations, but much about them remains a mystery. |
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| Horses, Steel, European Diseases, Greeks |
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| _____, ______, and ___________ __________ to which natives had no resistance enabled the conquest, but the Spaniards supportive religion, strong institutions, and philosophical structure elaborated over centuries as far back as the ancient _______ made it possible to hold what had been won. |
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| Olmec ____________ __________ located in costal tropical forests could not support an urban population and therefore they depended on surrounding villages. |
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| The most puzzling of Olmec artifacts are the _______ _______ _______. |
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| The last Moorish bastion of Granada fell in ______. |
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| The Olmec selected the ______ - _____ - ______ cycle wherein the solar day matches up with the _______ day as their equivalent to our century. |
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| The Olmec _____ god and a ________ serpent deity which were known the Mexica as _______ Quetzalcoatl respectively were adopted throughout Mesoamerica. |
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| Mother culture, Central America, Thousand, Olmecs |
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| The Olmec are regarded as the ________ ________ of Mesoamerica, a region encompassing Mexico’s southern half and adjoining areas of _______ __________, because the otherwise diverse array of indigenous societies that arose in Mesoamerica over the next ________ years shared cultural traits derived from the _______. |
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