FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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importance of trade with western Europe.
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ability of humans to adapt to the environment.
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influence of cultural diversity.
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complexity of indigenous belief systems.
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Detailed explanation-1: -They developed resilient breeds of crops such as potatoes, quinoa and corn. They built cisterns and irrigation canals that snaked and angled down and around the mountains. And they cut terraces into the hillsides, progressively steeper, from the valleys up the slopes.
Detailed explanation-2: -Inca, also spelled Inka, South American Indians who, at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1532, ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from the northern border of modern Ecuador to the Maule River in central Chile.
Detailed explanation-3: -The empire was long and narrow because the great Andes Mountains blocked settlement further inland into the South American continent. The cities of the Incas and the tribes they conquered were built on the flat coastal plain or were located in the mountainous area.
Detailed explanation-4: -The heartland of the Inca Empire was in the high plateaus and mountains of the Andes of Peru. This area is mostly above 3, 000 metres (9, 800 ft) in elevation and is characterized by low or seasonal precipitation, low temperatures, and thin soils.