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The Zapotec are a group of American Indians who live
in the state of Oaxaca in southern Mexico. The Zapotec
have lived in what is now known as Oaxaca since about
1500 BCE. In around 500 BCE, they built their capital
city known as Monte Alban. This city had flat, step-style
pyramids, temples, and very elaborate and ornate
tombs. Like the Zapotec people of today, the early
Zapotec people were farmers. They also made fine
pottery. In addition to this, they carved writing onto slabs
of stone. This was one of the earliest forms of writing in
the Americas. Zapotec lands once stretched from what
is now Puebla – the state north of Oaxaca – to the
Pacific Ocean. But after around 500 AD, Monte Alban
started to fall into ruin, and a people called the Mixtec
took over the city. The Zapotec started to form a number
of small kingdoms, but these were conquered by the
Spanish when they took over the region in the 1500s.