FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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They influenced the Maya and Aztecs
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They were the last people to settle Mesoamerica
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They settled between two rivers
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The Inca learned from them
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Aztec built and constructed enormous step pyramids in the fashion of the Olmec and Maya. From these two great civilizations, the Aztec also borrowed glyphs and aspects of the Olmec and Mayan written languages, and organized their calendars from the astronomy and knowledge assembled by the Olmec and Maya.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Olmec influence on the Maya began to show up in artifacts, starting before 100 B.C. By then, Dr. Coe and other scholars said, Olmec art, religion, rubber-ball games and the ceremonial dress of rulers had clearly found its way to Maya cities.
Detailed explanation-3: -How did the Olmecs and Maya influence the Aztec civilization in similar ways? The Aztecs used Olmec styles for temples and the Mayan calendar for rituals conducted in them.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Olmec are probably best known for the statues they carved: 20 ton stone heads, quarried and carved to commemorate their rulers. The name Olmec is an Aztec word meaning the rubber people; the Olmec made and traded rubber throughout Mesoamerica.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Olmec culture thrived along Mexico’s gulf coast from roughly 1200 to 400 B.C. Best known today for their carved colossal heads, the Olmecs were an important early Mesoamerican civilization which had much influence on later cultures such as the Aztecs and the Maya.