The Legacy of Mesoamerica History and Culture of a Native American Civilization, 2nd Edition

INDEX

549

A

Acalan, 135, 136
Acculturation, 30
Acosta, José de, 26
Africans, 156, 163, 201
Afro-Americans, 25 8
Afrocentrism, 24
Agriculture, 507– 8
Aztec, 90, 92–93, 95
slash-and-burn, 11, 111,
348
Aguirre, Gonzalo, 335
Alarcón, Hernando Ruiz de,
241, 243
Alcohol, ritual use of, 216
Alexander VI, Pope, 155
Algalta Valley, 13 8
Alphabetic writing, 222–23
Alta Verapaz mountains, 14
Alvarado, Pedro de, 5,
170–71, 177, 17 8 , 179,
339
Anasazi, 142
Andino, Tiburcio Carías, 293
Aquino, Atanasio, 2 88
Aragón, Luís Cardoza y, 339
Archaic period, 40–42, 45
hunter-gatherers in,
40–42, 43
sites in, 42
Arciniega, Ricado Pozas,
48 3– 84
Arévalo, Juan José, 323
Art, 477– 81
Asturias, Miguel Angel,
48 7– 88

Atanasio Tzul rebellion,

271–73

Atitlán, 366

Atlantis, 22, 23, 3 8

Autonomous municipality,

401

Azcapotzalco, 89

Aztecs, 57, 8 7, 90–102, 123,

139, 164, 1 88 , 531. See

alsoSpanish contact

period

agriculture, 90, 92–93, 95

conquest period, 164–75

economy of, 211

gender system, 443–45,

447–4 8

merchants, 134–35

Nahuatl language, 96–96,

99, 127, 12 8 , 139, 140,

165, 166, 193, 236, 303

peasants, 93–94

politics, 95–9 8

Quiché, 211, 2 80

religion in, 9 8 –102, 336,

509, 517

rise of, 71–72, 88 – 89

ritual sweeping, 446

Tenochtitlan, 91

Aztlan, 88

B

Badiano, Juan, 237

Balboa, Vasoco Núnez, 160

Balsas Depression, 13

Balsas River, 13, 16, 129

Baptism, 209–10, 212

Barrios, Justo Rufino, 259,

260, 277, 279

Belize, 110, 113, 114, 132,

133, 217

Beringia, 40

Bey, George, 75

Biazot, Janine Pauline

Archembault, 397–9 8

Bilingualism, 421

Blake, Michael, 4 8

Blanton, Richard, 52, 61

Blavatsky, Helena, 24

Bolívar, Simón, 256

Books of Chilam Balam of

Chumayel, 158 , 24 8 , 531

Bracero Program, 371

Brasseur de Bourbourg,

Charles Étienne, 27

as scientific precursor, 2 8

Bush, George W., 371

C

Cabildosystem, 16 8 , 204–5

Cabrera, Manuel Estrada,

293

Cacaxtla, 72

Cacique system, 262, 3 86

Calakmul, 60, 62

Calderón, Rafael Angel, 325

Calendars

long count, 63

Mayan, 3 8 9, 511

pre-Columbian, 226, 232

prehistoric period, 53

ritual, 434

Calleja, Félix, 266