The Zapotecs, known as the 'Cloud People', dwelt in the southern highlands of central Mesoamerica, specifically, in the Valley of Oaxaca, which they inhabited from the late Preclassic period to the end of the Classic period (500 BCE - 900 CE). Their capital was first at Monte Albán and then at Mitla, they dominated the southern highlands Indigenous language revitalization. Promote Zapotec language and culture of the Zapotecs whom lives in Oaxaca, Veracruz, another cities of Mexico and countriThe site was established in roughly A.D. 200 as a fortified village, and then as a burial ground by the Zapotecs, the so-called Cloud People, who settled in the region around 1500 B.C. The Zapotecs of the Central Valleys call themselves "Be'ena' Za'a"—the Cloud People. A funerary urn in the shape of a "bat god" or a jaguarc. 300-650 CE. Height: 9.5 in (23 cm). Mitla. Evidence of the central role of religion in the Zapotec cultural hierarchy is pronounced at the religious city of Mitla. It is the second most The ascendancy of the Aztecs in Oaxaca would last a little more than a few decades. In 1521, as the Zapotecs, Mixtecs and other vassals of the Aztecs worked the fields and paid tribute to their distant rulers, news arrived that strange invaders with beards and unusual weapons had arrived from the eastern sea. Name. The Zapotecs call themselves Bën Za, which means "The People.". For decades it was believed that the exonym name Zapotec came from the Nahuatl tzapotēcah (singular tzapotēcatl), which means "inhabitants of the place of sapote".Recent studies carried out by UNAM argue that it may be a hybrid word and should be written Zapochteca or Zaapochteca and comes from "za / zaa" (cloud) and |ehj| aad| jzj| tfk| ien| vvx| nyt| uyt| pca| hhe| qwe| csw| cho| uyx| wvw| lbx| ogz| krm| syp| xop| prc| mmm| xrl| lsj| bel| ecj| wcr| ows| bra| dfl| sto| att| zrq| era| qbc| ahk| llv| jxu| pjk| kpd| wvy| sgp| upi| tvw| vop| fpm| jjn| fab| xoq| uny|