Postclassic

In other words, the rise of complex societies created the right conditions for the growth of medicine as a belief system and an occupation. 1 Leaving the belief system of medicine to the following two chapters, the present one continues to look at the day-to-day reality of sufferers, this time with a focus on the types of medical services that were available to them, first in Postclassic Mesoamerica, and then in the colonial world of New Spain.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

Nonetheless, they provide the modern reader with a sense of the value system that helped to shape Postclassic Mesoamerican civilization.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

In the highly evolved society of Postclassic central Mexico, the tícitl (titici, plural), a Náhuatl word we might loosely translate as "doctor," or "someone skilled in the art of curing," was no simple healer, at least in Western conceptions of that word.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

This change in the way people lived coincided with a trend toward a decline in the stature of Mesoamericans, from the Preclassic to the Postclassic.

Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

"Evidence explicitly or implicitly asserts that Maya warfare was more frequent, more intense, more lethal, and less constrained by political/ideological conventions during the Terminal Classic/Early Postclassic than it had ever been before."

The Ancient Maya - A Commercial Empire 2006

"Evidence explicitly or implicitly asserts that Maya warfare was more frequent, more intense, more lethal, and less constrained by political/ideological conventions during the Terminal Classic/Early Postclassic than it had ever been before."

The Ancient Maya - A Commercial Empire 2006

While the latter seems invented (perhaps based on the goddess Xtabay), the rest of the pantheon pertains to Late Postclassic and contact period Maya culture, although the cult of the Feathered Serpent (Kulkulcan) came in vogue in the Terminal Classic period, immediately after the collapse, in northern Yucatan.

Orcs in Loincloths 2007

Postclassic may suggest as much, but the really big fall of Maya civilization occurred at the end of the Late Classic period, during the ninth century.

Orcs in Loincloths 2007

This encounter finalized the Late Postclassic period, terminology possibly encouraging critics to characterize the time as the "dying," "waning," "declining" -- you get the point -- days of Maya civilization.

Orcs in Loincloths 2007

The Postclassic period was ambling along just fine, until the Spanish did their own version of a Mel Gibson movie on it.

Orcs in Loincloths 2007