Notes: | Relief shown by shading and spot heights. Ancillary maps: The setting. Land of highs and lows, A natural abundance -- 2000 B.C.-A.D. 250. Preclassic, setting the stage for civilization -- 250-900. Classic, Rise and fall of cities and states -- 900-1521. Postclasic, World of trade and tribute -- 1521 to present. Colonial and modern, conquest to independence. "Supplement to National Geographic, December 1997." Issued "Washington, D.C., December 1997". "Printed October 1997". Includes text, historical notes, chronology, and col. ill. Drawing of Palenque, text, graphic time-line, and col. ill. on verso.
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