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    9.2 Early Mesoamerican Civilizations

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    1. The Zapotec people were one of Mesoamerica's earliest civilizations who made lasting contributions including developing a writing system and calendar based on solar movements that influenced other cultures. 2. They built the first city in the Americas called Monte Alban with impressive stone pyramids, temples, and palaces. 3. The Olmec were Mesoamerica's first civilization located in southern Mexico and directed a large trading network throughout the region, exchanging goods and influencing others with their religious beliefs featuring a jaguar rain god.

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    1. The Zapotec people were one of Mesoamerica's earliest civilizations who made lasting contributions including developing a writing system and calendar based on solar movements that influenced other cultures. 2. They built the first city in the Americas called Monte Alban with impressive stone pyramids, temples, and palaces. 3. The Olmec were Mesoamerica's first civilization located in southern Mexico and directed a large trading network throughout the region, exchanging goods and influencing others with their religious beliefs featuring a jaguar rain god.

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    2 Early Mesoamerican Civilizations


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    1. the lasting their way of writing and calendar which was 14. Zapotec culture unknown reasons
    contributions based off the movements of the sun were collapse
    of the taken by others. The city Monte Alban
    15. Zapotec people lived southwest in a valley with good
    Zapotec influenced others who built their cities
    soil and rainfall
    people similarly. The Zapotec are America's first city
    builders
    2. Mesoamerica stretches from central Mexico to northern
    Honduras
    3. Monte Alban first city that Zapotec people built. impressive
    city with pyramids, temples, palaces made
    out of stone. Observatory used to look at
    stars
    4. The Olmec Mesoamerica's first civilization. In southern
    Mexico in area of hot rain forests.
    Mesoamerica's mother culture
    5. Olmec .They directed a large trading network
    people trade throughout Mesoamerica. they traded with
    network people to the north and south. They got iron
    ore and different kinds of stone
    6. Olmec had many gods that stood for forces in
    religion nature. most important god was the jaguar
    spirit which represented powerful rain god.
    7. Olmec's unknown reasons
    disapperance
    8. San Lorenzo the oldest site of the Olmecs
    9. what did created a kind of writing and a calendar.
    Zapotec Began building the first city in the Americas.
    people
    accomplish?
    10. what was earthen mounds, courtyards, pyramids built
    discovered from stone. On top of mounds were
    at San monuments made of stone
    Lorenzo?
    11. what were the jaguar figure continued to appear in later
    lasting people's sculpture and pottery. The look of
    contributions Olmec towns with the pyramids, open space,
    of the Olmec huge stone sculptures also repeated. Their
    people? ritual ball game continued to be used
    12. what were they lived along the Gulf coast of Mexico
    the benefits with dense forests and heavy rain. It had
    of the good clay that could be used for pottery.
    Olmec's Wood, rubber from forest. Stone from the
    land? mountains to build buildings. Rivers good
    transportation. Good soil for food
    13. why were they had influence on their neighbors ad
    the Olmecs people who lived after them.
    an important
    culture?

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