Topics

Tarascans

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These city-states ruled the area in and around

the Valley of Mexico

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Mesoamerican Languages

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Mesoamerican Languages

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The Tarascans/ Purepecha

• Relacion de Michoacan

• Origin

• Metallurgy

• Defeated Aztecs 1478

• Characteristics – Few ball courts

– No Tlaloc nor Quetzalcoatl

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Tzintzuntzan Architecture

dominated by a huge platform supporting a row of five temple pyramids called yácatas.

Yacata

http://www.humanities-interactive.org/unknown/ex085_14.html

Copper

http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~delacova/tarascan.htm