• • The Olmec built a far reaching empire.• The Olmec enjoyed rich farming

resources. • They built drainage systems to divert

water to protect there crops.• They used the river for trading.• Built the first planned city in the

Americas.

• The Maya people built a civilization in the steamy rain forests of the Yucatán Peninsula.

• The Maya traded throughout Mesoamerica.

• They used their central location to reach in to Mexico and Central America.

• The Maya, like many others, traded in seagoing canoes paddled along the coast, to the present-day United States.

This civilization was developed in west coast of South America.

The Moche lived in the coastal desert where Peru is today.

• Their civilization was from A.D. 100 to A.D. 700.

• The eat mainly corn, squash, beans, and peanuts.

• The Moche engineers built huge pyramids and traded in the Amazon River.

• The Moche civilization was replaced by a new civilization called the Inca.