Ensayo sobre la Cultura Zapoteca

ACTIVIDAD DE APLICACIÓN

(Cultura Zapoteca)

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The Zapotec culture or civilization was a pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Zapotec Indian village that flourished in the South Valley of Oaxaca and the Tehuantepec Isthmus (Mexico). There is archaeological evidence that their culture goes back some 2500 years ago. The Zapotecs left archaeological evidence in the ancient city of Monte Alban, in the form of buildings, ball game fields, magnificent tombs and show their silverware (finely worked gold jewelry). The city of Monte Alban was one of the first major cities in Mesoamerica and the center of a Zapotec state that dominated much of what we know today as the state of Oaxaca.

The Zapotecs developed a calendar and a logofonetico writing system that uses a separate glyph to represent each of the syllables of the language. This writing system is one of several candidates who are thought to have been the first Mesoamerican writing systems and the predecessor of writing systems developed by the Maya, Mixtec and Aztec civilizations.

They were a sedentary and advanced culture and civilization that lived in large villages and cities, in houses built of stone and mortar. They recorded the main events of its history through hieroglyphs, and the war made use of a cotton armor. The ruins or Mitla archaeological site known as found evidence of human occupation since the beginning of our era (year 0-200). With the disappearance of Monte Alban as the core of power, Mitla became a very important population that served as center of power for the Zapotecs of the valley. Its maximum growth and apogee occurred between 950 and 1521.

In the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan city, inhabited Zapotec and Mixtec artisans whose business was the production of jewelry for the emperor and the Zapotecs had great prestige in the goldsmith. also we found remains of Zapotec ruins of neighborhoods in the city of Teotihuacan, suggesting that there were contacts between the Zapotecs and the peoples of central Mexico, long before the arrival of the Aztecs in this region.

At the time of the conquest of Mexico Zapotecs they were independent of the Aztecs. The Zapotecs defeated the Spaniards during the early campaigns 1522 and 1527, and not be subdued until 1551.

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