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Michael Douglas Coe 11/10/25 Britannica] | Michael Douglas Coe 11/10/25 Britannica] | ||
On the intellectual, ideological, and religious levels, although some diversity and certain elaborations occurred in some regions, there was a fundamental unity to the Mesoamerican area, the product of centuries of political and economic ties. The religion was polytheistic, with numerous gods specialized along the lines of human activities. There were gods for basic activities such as war, reproduction, and agriculture; cosmogenic gods who created the universe and invented human culture; and gods of craft groups, social classes, political systems, and their subdivisions. | On the intellectual, ideological, and religious levels, although some diversity and certain elaborations occurred in some regions, there was a fundamental unity to the Mesoamerican area, the product of centuries of political and economic ties. The religion was polytheistic, with numerous gods specialized along the lines of human activities. There were gods for basic activities such as war, reproduction, and agriculture; cosmogenic gods who created the universe and invented human culture; and gods of craft groups, social classes, political systems, and their subdivisions. | ||
=====Mesoamerican and Pre-Columbian Art===== | |||
[https://guides.library.ucla.edu/c.php?g=180492&p=1185301 UCLA Library] | |||
Art of the Ancient Americas collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art | |||
Particularly strong in objects from the major civilizations of ancient Mexico. Collection includes ceramic funerary offerings from the West Mexican states of Nayarit, Colima, and Jalisco, jade figures produced by Olmec artists on the Gulf Coast, and textiles and ceramics from the ancient kingdoms of Peru. Browse collection by culture, place, or type of artwork. | |||
