Mawu akuti Mesoamerica amachokera ku Chigiriki ndipo amatanthauza "Middle America." Likutanthawuza malo a chikhalidwe ndi chikhalidwe chomwe chimachokera kumpoto kwa Mexico kudutsa ku Central America, kuphatikiza gawo limene tsopano limapangidwa ndi mayiko a Guatemala, Belize, Honduras ndi El Salvador. Motero zikuwoneka ngati mbali ina ku North America, kuphatikizapo ku Central America.
Miyambo yambiri yakale yomwe idapangidwira kale, kuphatikizapo Olmecs, Zapotecs, Teotihuacanos, Mayas , ndi Aztecs.
Mitundu iyi inakhazikitsa mabungwe ovuta, inkafika pazomwe zakhala zatsopano zamakono, inamanga zomangamanga, ndipo idagwirizana ndi zikhalidwe zambiri. Ngakhale kuti derali ndilosiyana kwambiri ndi geography, biology ndi chikhalidwe, miyambo yakale yomwe inakhazikika mkati mwa Mesoamerica inafotokozera zikhalidwe ndi zizoloŵezi zofanana, ndipo inali kulankhulana nthawi zonse mu chitukuko chawo.
Kugawanika mbali zochokera m'madera akale a ku Mesoamerica:
- chakudya chochokera ku chimanga, nyemba, ndi sikwashi
- nthano zofanana za chiyambi
- dongosolo la kalendala
- zolemba
- Masewero a mpira osewera ndi mpira wa mpira
- miyambo yachipembedzo yopezera magazi ndi kupereka nsembe
Palinso mitundu yosiyanasiyana pakati pa magulu omwe anakhazikitsidwa mkati mwa Mesoamerica, ndi zilankhulo zosiyanasiyana, miyambo, ndi miyambo.
Mzere wa Mesoamerica:
Mbiri ya Mesoamerica imagawidwa mu nthawi zitatu zazikulu. Archaeologists amathyola izi kukhala zing'onozing'ono, koma kuti amvetsetse bwino, izi zitatu ndizo zofunika kwambiri kumvetsa.
Nthawi ya Pre-Classic inayamba kuchokera mu 1500 BC mpaka 200 AD Pa nthawi imeneyi panali njira yowonjezeretsera njira zaulimi zomwe zimathandiza anthu ambiri, kugawikana kwa ntchito komanso kukhazikitsidwa kwazinthu zoyenera kuti zitukule. Olmec chitukuko , chomwe nthawi zina chimatchedwa "chikhalidwe cha amayi" cha Mesoamerica, chinapangidwa pa nthawiyi.
Nthawi yachikale , kuyambira 200 mpaka 900 AD, adawona kukula kwa midzi yayikulu ndi centralization of power. Ena mwa mizinda ikuluikulu yakaleyi ndi Monte Alban ku Oaxaca, Teotihuacan pakatikati pa Mexico ndi malo a Mayan ku Tikal, Palenque ndi Copan. Teotihuacan ndi imodzi mwa metropoles yaikulu padziko lapansi panthawiyo, ndipo mphamvu zake zinayambika kwambiri ku Mesoamerica.
Nthawi ya Post-Classic , kuyambira 900 AD mpaka kufika kwa Asipanishi kumayambiriro kwa zaka za m'ma 1500, adadziwika ndi mayiko ndikugogomezera nkhondo ndi nsembe. M'dera la Maya, Chichén Itza inali malo akuluakulu a ndale komanso a zachuma, komanso m'chigawo chapakati. M'zaka za m'ma 1300, kumapeto kwa nthawiyi, Aaztec (omwe amatchedwanso Mexica) adatuluka. Aaztec anali atakhala mtundu wamasiye, koma adakhazikika pakatikati pa Mexico ndipo adakhazikitsa mzinda wawo waukulu wa Tenochtitlan mu 1325, ndipo adayamba kulamulira kwambiri ku Mesoamerica.
Zambiri zokhudza Mesoamerica:
Mesoamerica kaŵirikaŵiri imagawidwa m'zinenero zisanu: West Mexico, Central Highlands, Oaxaca, Gulf dera, ndi Maya.
Mawu akuti Mesoamerica adayambitsidwa ndi Paul Kirchhoff, wazaka za 1943, wa ku Germany komanso wa ku Mexico.
Kutanthauzira kwake kunachokera ku malire, malo, komanso chikhalidwe pa nthawi ya kugonjetsa. Mawu akuti Mesoamerica amagwiritsidwa ntchito makamaka ndi chikhalidwe cha anthropologist ndi archaeologists, koma ndi zothandiza alendo ku Mexico kuti azidziwe bwino pamene akuyesera kumvetsetsa momwe Mexico inakhalira patapita nthawi.