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Olmecs

Different Groups of Olmecs

• Chief or prominent family lived by large mound located in the center of the community
• Status of families was determined by how far they lived from the mound.
• Mound was always dedicated to their main God

What Did the Olmecs do?

• The Olmecs were the first major civilization in Mexico. They lived in the tropical lowland on the Gulf of Mexico which is the present-day Mexico states of Veracruze and Tabasco.
• The name Olmecs is nahuatl-the Aztec language-word it means the rubber people

Food

• Nuts
• Squash.
• Beans.
• Sweet Potatoes.
• Tomatoes.
• Fish.
• Clams
• Turtles

What does it Look like?

• Their homes were made out of big rocks.
• Their tools were made out of clay, stone, bone,wood,deer,antlees.

Where was the Civilization?

• Location on the gulf is were Veracruz and Tabaco.

Extra

• Olmecs art,gods,glyphic writing helped form Mayan + Aztec culture.
• Olmecs Civilzation went into decline by 400 BCE and no one knows why

WRITTEN BY, Mistieriyah Jordan.