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CULTURE ZAPOTECA The culture zapoteca is a native town of the south of Mexico, and that also lives mainly in the south of Oaxaca and the isthmus of Tehuantepec. At present the family of her languages consists of more than 15 languages than they are in disuse danger. At the pre-Columbian time, the zapotecas were one of the more important mesoam�ricanas civilizations. Little it is known on the origin of the zapotecas. Unlike the majority of the natives of Mesoam�rica, they did not have any tradition or legend on their migration, but they thought that they were born directly from rocks, trees, and of jaguars. Archaeological evidence indicates that its culture dates back for 2500 years. Approximately between centuries XV and IV adC, took place the first important urban development of the culture zapoteca, with center in San jOse Wooded hill. Towards year 800 a.C., during the Precl�sico horizon, the zapotecos settled down in central valleys of the present state of Oaxaca. Thus, while Teotihuacan in center bloomed of Mexico and the Mayan cities in the south-east, Alb�n Mount, constructed ceremonial center at the top of a hill, was the most important city of the region oaxaque�a. The first zapotecas were sedentary, lived in agricultural establishments, that adored a pantheon of Gods headed by the God of the rain, Cocijo - represented by a symbol of the fertility that combined the symbols of the earth-jaguar and the sky-serpent, symbols common in the mesoamericanas cultures. A hierarchy of priests regulated the religious rites, that sometimes included human sacrifices. The zapotecas adored to their ancestors and, believing in a paradisiac world, they developed the cult to deads. They possibly had a great religious center in Mitla and a magnificent city Alb�n Mount, where she highly prospered a developed civilization, more ago than 2000 years. In the art, the architecture, the writing (hieroglyphic), the mathematics, and the astrology (calendars), the zapotecas seem to have had cultural affinities with olmecas, old the Mayans, and more ahead with the Toltecas. They left archaeological evidences in the old city of Alb�n Mount; in the form of buildings, stages for the game of ball, magnificent tombs and valuable merchandise, including the gold jewelry shop finely worked. Alb�n mount was the first main city in the Western Hemishpere and the center of a state zapoteca that dominated a great part than now we know like the present state of Oaxaca. The zapotecas very developed a variable agriculture that at the beginning of the clic period gave sustenance to numerous villages. In order to have good harvests they rendered cultured to the sun, rain, the Earth and the maize. The women and men of the town, who lived in the villages, were forced to give like tribute: maize, guajolotes, honey and kidney bean. Besides agriculturists the zapotecos honored like weavers and potters. The funeral ballot boxes are famous zapotecas that were mud containers which they were placed in the tombs. The zapotecos reached a high cultural level and were, along with the Mayans, the unique town of the time that developed a complete system of writing. By means of hieroglyphics and other symbols recorded in stone or painted in the buildings and tombs, they combine the representation of ideas and sounds. The great cities that constructed the agricultural towns of Mesoam�rica, grew and were inhabited during several centuries. Nevertheless, between 800 years 700 and d.C., almost all of them were left. First, in Teotihuacan, later in the Mayan zone and soon in Alb�n Mount. In spite of that, new ceremonial centers like Cacaxtla bloomed and the Taj�n. During this period also they subsisted se�or�os advanced in the Plateau, like those of Cholula and Xochicalco; and in the states of Guerrero, Michoac�n, It sights on, Jalisco, Nayarit, Sinaloa, Guanajuato, Aguascalientes and Quer�taro, the cultures of the West were developed. Man Bird Cocijo, deity zapoteca Funeral ballot box zapoteca Funeral ballot box zapoteca Scripture zapoteca Gl alabaster tripod God of the infraworld and the fertility. Alb�n mount dominated valleys until Clic period ends and, like other mesoamericanas cities, between years 700 and 1200 d.C finished its splendor; in spite of it, the culture zapoteca continued in valleys of Oaxaca, Tabasco and Veracruz. Coming from the north, the mixtecas (to which they did not like the trip so that it gave bad thorn him) replaced the zapotecas in Alb�n Mount and in Mitla later; the zapotecas captured Tehuantepec of zoques and huaves of the Gulf of Tehuantepec. For half of century XV, the zapotecas and mixtecas fought to avoid that the Aztecs gained the control of the commercial routes towards Chiapas, Veracruz and Guatemala. Under the command of their great king, Cosijoeza, the zapotecas supported to a long site in the rocky mountain of Guiengola, maintaining the view on Tehuantepec, and successfully maintaining the political autonomy by means o