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Ancient Civilizations
  • MesoAmerica
  • Olmecs MesoAmericas Mother Culture
  • Chavin along the South American coast

2
Olmecs Civilization 1200 B.C. 400 B.C.
  • Olmec head or colossal head (the king)
  • Central American Location

3
OlmecsSpecialized Workers
  • Priests
  • fishers
  • farmers
  • traders
  • artisans

4
OlmecsComplex Institutions
  • Ruling Priest
  • Religious centers (Great Pyramid)
  • ritual ball game
  • trade network from Mexico City to Honduras
  • rivers provide for transportation

5
OlmecsAdvanced Cities
  • San Lorenzo 1150 B.C
  • La Venta 800 B.C
  • Bay of Campache
  • up too 100 inches of rain
  • hills to the north
  • present states of Veracruz and Tabasco

6
OlmecsAdvanced Technology
  • Chinampas irrigation system
  • Used stone for tools
  • monuments
  • iron ore reached Olmecs through trade

7
OlmecsRecord Keeping
  • No written records kept!!
  • Only sculptures of leaders or religious figures

8
Chavin900 BC to 200 BC
  • South American Location
  • Carved head of a half human,  half feline deity

9
ChavinSpecialized Workers
  • Priest
  • artisans
  • masons

10
ChavinComplex Institutions
  • Very religious featuring ziggurats and earthen
    mounds
  • No political institutions
  • Religious centers not outposts for great empires
  • columns is characterized by an essentially
    zoomorphic repertory (jaguars, snakes, condors,
    caimans) to which human faces are added here and
    there

11
ChavinAdvanced Cities
  • Chavín de Huántar-one of the oldest known and
    most admired pre-Hispanic sites. Center of the
    Chavin Dynasty.

12
ChavinAdvanced Technology
  • people created a successful drainage system.
    Several canals built under the temple acted as
    drainage
  • used early techniques to develop refined early
    gold work

13
ChavinRecord Keeping
  • What was found aided in influencing future
    civilizations.
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