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Español: w:es:Matrícula de Tributos - Hoja 2
English: "The tax registration records in pictographic writing peoples taxes paid to Mexico-Tenochtitlan, the center of the triple alliance of Mexico, Texcoco and Tacuba at the time of the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish. Tuition was probably copied or made from an original prehispanic around 1522-1530 by order of the conquistador Hernán Cortés, who wanted to learn more about the economic organization of the empire of the alliance. Each page of the registration is one of the 16 provinces tax. The main town of each province appears first on the lower left of the page, followed up by the people or altepetl within the church. Each altepetl is represented by a toponymic glyph. When the left margin is complete, followed by the right margin, and finally the upper row. Within this framework toponymic glyphs, items paid region are represented visually, in rows, and the expected amount of each item is recorded using the arithmetic system Nahuatl. With these several hundred detailed toponymic glyphs and tax registration, the registration tax is a valuable document for the study of the political and economic geography of Mesoamerica in the pre-conquest, the place names in Nahuatl, the number system Nahuatl and economic wealth of the empire."
Mesoamerican civilizations were a group of ancient cultures that inhabited Central and South America, including parts of modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, and El Salvador. The Mesoamerican civilization is known for its advanced and sophisticated cultures, which developed complex systems of writing, art, architecture, and science. The Mesoamerican civilization is generally considered to have begun around 2500 BC and to have reached its peak between AD 600 and AD 900. The Mesoamerican civilization is known for its impressive achievements, including the development of the Maya and Aztec cultures, which are among the most well-known of the ancient Mesoamerican cultures. Aboriginal American Indian cultures that evolved in Mesoamerica (part of Mexico and Central America) and the Andean region (western South America) prior to Spanish exploration and conquest in the 16th century. The pre-Columbian civilizations were extraordinary developments in human society and culture, ranking with the early civilizations of Egypt, Mesopotamia, and China. Like the ancient civilizations of the Old World, those in the New World were characterized by kingdoms and empires, great monuments and cities, and refinements in the arts, metallurgy, and writing; the ancient civilizations of the Americas also display in their histories similar cyclical patterns of growth and decline, unity and disunity.
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