Mesoamerican

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• Jade was prized by Mesoamericans as far back as 3,500 years ago.

  Academic text (1992)

• Mesoamericans also cultivated raised fields in wetlands, terraced sloped lands, and practiced slash-and-burn shifting cultivation on forested lands.

  Academic text (1995)

• All the technology used by ancient Mesoamericans was developed indigenously.

  Academic text (1995)

• However, ancient Mesoamericans did develop and use dams.

  Academic text (1995)

• Mesoamericans seem to have grasped certain concepts very well and very early, but others not at all.

  Academic text (1995)

• Only later did Mesoamericans discover that the seeds, fermented along with the pulp, could be used as the basis of chocolate drinks.

  Academic text (2010)

• Although ancient Mesoamericans did not develop certain aspects of canal-irrigation technology, they did remarkably well with aqueducts, an accomplishment that is rarely recognized.

  Academic text (1995)

• For example, the ancient Mesoamericans were accomplished stonemasons who cut, fitted, and mortared stones for buildings, but they never applied the technology to irrigation dams.

  Academic text (1995)

• The ancient Mesoamericans created impressive pyramids that still amaze visitors today.

• Artifacts from ancient Mesoamericans reveal a deep understanding of astronomy and mathematics.

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