Social Sciences and History / Unit 12 SSH 1132 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Middle and South America: Hearths, Primacy, Inequality
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The idea
Mexico groups culturally with Central America. The Mesoamerican hearth produced the Maya, from about two thousand BCE, and the Aztec; the Inca ruled the altiplano from Cusco. Tordesillas in fourteen ninety-four split the New World between Spain and Portugal.
In practice
Over eighty percent urban; primate cities; megacities.
Where people slip
The top tenth holds about seventy-one percent of wealth, undated.
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