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Founding of Zapotec Monte Albán

Type Event Region North America Time c. -500

Around 500 BCE the Zapotecs founded Monte Albán in Mexico's Valley of Oaxaca, one of Mesoamerica's earliest planned hilltop cities, which became a po…

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c. -500Monte Albán · Oaxaca StateThe Zapotecs chose the central highlands of the Valley of Oaxaca, leveling the hilltop to build the first ceremonial structures and plazas in a planned urban layout, marking the birth of the Zapotec civilization's political center.

Sources

Monte Albán https://www.britannica.com/place/Monte-Alban
Monte Albán: Settlement Patterns at the Ancient Zapotec Capital — Richard E. Blanton (1978)