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The Four Zapotec System

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Among the pre-Colombian cultures of the New World the civilizations of Mesoamerica-the region from Mexico south to Guatemala and Honduras- were unique in their possession of a true form of writing: a series of hieroglyphs arranged in vertical column and in many instances combined with numerals. The glyphs were at least (48) … related to a spoken language. Although there were many regional (49) …, the four major systems were those of Maya of shouter. Mexico, Belize, Guatemala and Honduras, of the Aztec of central Mexico and of the Mixtec and Zapotec of southern Mexico. Of the four Zapotec system was the oldest. It (50) … perhaps as early as 600 B.C. in the valley of Oaxaca, some 550 kilometers south of Mexico City.
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