Camargo, Diego Muñoz, 246
Campbell, Lyle, 49
Candelaria River, 134
Canek, 1 80
Cannibalism, 164
Capitalism, 294
Caracol, 60, 66, 401–3
Cardenal, Ernesto, 4 81
Cárdenas, Lázaro, 302, 317,
457
Caribbean Coast, 137–39
Carranza, Venustiano, 29 8 ,
300, 301
Carrera, Rafael, 261, 276, 279
Casas Grandes, 134
Caso, Alfonso, 317
Caste War of Yucatán,
28 3– 8 9, 476
Castillo, Bernal Díaz del, 169
Castro, Fidel, 30 8
Catacamas, 15
Catherwood, Frederick, 27,
38
Catholic Action programs,
325
Central America, 315–27,
333–35, 363
development in, 323–27
independence movements
in, 270–73
indigenous development
in, 324–27
multiculturalism in,
344–46
nationalism in, 337–40
revolutions, 297, 305–15
Central America Isthmus,
17–1 8 , 137
Central American Common
Market (CACM), 323,
326
Centralism, 25 8 –62
Central Mexico, 52, 71–76,
125, 127–29, 12 8 , 132,
139, 176, 1 8 7, 207
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Central Plateau (Mesa
Central), 13
Ceramics, 47
Cerros, 52
Chalcatzingo, 51, 52
Chalchuapa, 53
Chamorro, Pedro Joaquín,
313, 314
Chamula, 330–33, 460, 491,
493, 494
Chan Kom, 460
Charles III, King of France,
184
Charles V, Holy Roman Em-
peror, 159, 161–62, 1 8 6,
192
Chayanov, Alexander, 361
Chiapas, 10, 15, 47, 4 8 , 50,
257, 269, 319, 341, 357,
358 , 365, 370, 379, 395,
48 9, 491–97, 519, 524
context of Zapatista move-
ment, 3 85
women’s roles in, 451–53
Chibchan language, 126, 139
Chichen Itzá, 64, 72, 73–76,
81
Chichimecs, 122, 267
Chiefdoms, 52
Chinampas, 29, 90, 91
Chishtot, Jacinto Pérez, 501
Cholan language, 411, 427
Chol language, 13 8
Cholula, 72
Chontal Mayan language,
135, 136
Chorotega, 146
Chorti Maya language, 13 8
Chronicle of the Maya Kings
and Queens(Martin and
Grube), 62, 64
Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, 22
Cisneros, Francisco Jiménez
de, 153, 190City-states, 121–22
Civil (notarial) literature,
251–53
Clark, John, 4 8
Classic period, 56
Maya, 60–71
religion in, 509–11
Clovis sites, 42
Codices, 223–37
Coe, Michael, 49
Cofradías(confraternity),
214
Coixtlahuacan, 12 8
Cold War, 3 82
Colonialism, economic
legacies of, 350–57
Colonial period, 115,
18 2–221
community affiliation,
201–17
economy, 211–12
family life, 205–11
government, 1 8 2– 8 6,
203–5
literature, 229–37
nativistic movements,
18 6– 8 9, 217–20
religion, 1 8 9–9 8 , 212–17
social class, 19 8 –201
women in, 445–53
Columbus, Christopher, 1–2,
21, 154–55, 160
Columbus, Fernando, 1
Community, 202
Conavigua, 471
Consumption patterns,
366–69
Contan River, 52
Contreras, Daniel, 271
Copán, 3 8 , 59, 63, 64,
69–71
Hieroglyphic Stairway,
223
ruins of, 39
Córdova, Hernández de, 2