Mesoamerica

Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico through Central
America which produced a set of culturally related civilizations before the
discovery of the New World by Columbus. Mesoamerican is a general adjective
to refer to that group of Pre-Columbian cultures.

Some common shared Mesoamerican traits include intensive agricuture based
heavily on maize corn; the use of a 260 day ritual calendar in addition to the 
solar year calendar; the construction of temples elevated atop stepped 
pyramids; a ritual ball-game; and various other artistic and cultural conventions.

Mesoamerican civilizations included the Olmec, Maya, Mixtec, Zapotec,
Huastec, Tarascan, Teotihuacan, Totonac, Toltec, and the Aztec.

In some writings from the 1920s and 1930s the alternative term Middle
America has been used to refer to Mesoamerica, but that has generally fallen
out of favor.

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