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__TOC__ Characteristics Some common shared Mesoamerican traits include:
and various other artistic and cultural conventions. Mesoamerica is also a canonical example of a show some subset of a pool of common traits, despite being made up of many different Language Families . Mesoamerica's economy and geopolitics benefited from extensive use of a Lingua Franca , the Nahuatl language, since at least the 7th Century , and perhaps going back as far as 2,000 years. Mesoamerica is one of our planet’s six cradles of early civilizations. Many traits of the ancient cultures of Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico continue to the present time today. Several of these cultural inventions and traits have spread throughout the world, in both past and present. Mesoamerican metacivilizations included the Olmec , Zapotec , Teotihuacan , Maya , Mixtec , Huastec (also located on Aridoamerica ), Pipil , Totonac , Toltec , Tarascan , and the Aztec . An alternative term ''Middle America'' was sometimes used interchangeably with Mesoamerica in the early 20th century (sometimes as late as the 1960s), but that term has since generally fallen out of favor. The "Resurrection of the Mesoamerica soul" is a concept invoked in the current global study of the Zapatista . Particularly the section on The Global Discourse on the Zapatistas. See also
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