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Rise of Mixtec Culture

Type Event Region Mexico Time 701–800

In the 8th century, Mixtec culture gradually rose in the Oaxaca highlands and coastal zones, forming distinctive writing, painted pottery, and funera…

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  1. 701–750Oaxaca highlands · MexicoThe Mixtec established numerous small city-states in the Oaxaca highlands; terrace agriculture and trade networks expanded, standing alongside the Zapotec polities of the valleys.
  2. 750–800Tlaxiaco (Tilaltepec) · MexicoMixtec painted pottery, gold-working, and early written records gradually matured; tomb murals displayed a distinctive worldview and ancestor worship, and cultural identity grew ever more distinct.

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