Ancient Civilizations : Olmec
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Mystery of the Olmec
In the swampy lowlands of southern Mexico , the Olmec people built the earliest civilization in Americans
By 1200BC, they had large cities and religous centers.
Mystery of the Olmec
There are very little known by olmec except that they were highly organized and built huge monuments .
They made some known advances in civilization ,like a simple pictogram writing(like hieroglyphics) and simple system of mathematics.
Mystery of the Olmec
In 400BC, the Olmec mysteriously abandoned their cities and dissapeared.
They smashed or buried the giant stone gods and left their cities forever.
They dissapear from history without an explanation
Difference of the American pyramids The pyramids of ancient civilizations
in South America, like that of the Olmec, from those in Egypt and Sudan. Maya and Aztec,were different
The American pyramids were not tombs, but temples.
More Olmec contributions
The Olmecs were aparently the first Mesoamerican people to fathom the “concept of zero,develop calendar, create a hierogluphic writing system,and the first drainage system.
Quiz
(1) Olmec the______________empire (2) What does the enormous stone
heads represents? (3) Give atleast 2 contributions of
Olmec. (4) In what year did Olmec abandon
their cities and dissapesar? (5) There are very little knowns by
omec except?
Answers
(1) Mysterious (2) Their Gods (3) concept of zero develop calendar create a hierogluphic writing system the first drainage system simple pictogram simple system of mathematics. (4) 400BC
Answers
(5) were highly organized and built huge monuments
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