olmec

GOVERNMENT

• As the olmec population grew
• olmec did not believe warfare and conquest
• Some of these village developed into cites 

BELIF SYSTEMS

• Olmec worshiped several gods 
• The olmec also worshiped a fire god and a corn god
• They believe that the Jaguar god brought rain
• The chief god was the Jaguar

SCIENCE &TECHNOLGY

• Invented the Glyph writing
• The Glyph writing record events dates, and tell stories  
• Did not have the wheel or pack animals 
• Other olmec art included pottery and cave painting  
• olmec hand was made of basalt a kind of volcanic rock