The first major civilization in Mexico was the Olmec who lived around the south-central area. The Olmec flourished in the Mesoamerican Formative period dating roughly from 1500 – 400 BC and in 400 - 350 BC they went into decline. The cause for this decline is not definitely known but eleme...
副标题:America's first civilization 页数:208 定价:39.95 装帧:HRD ISBN:9780500021194 豆瓣评分 评价人数不足 评价: 写笔记 写书评 加入购书单 分享到 推荐 内容简介· ··· The Olmecs of southern Mexico are America's oldest civilization and Mesoamerica's "Mother Culture." Long famous for their ...
Mesoamerica refers to the cultural groups of central America, specifically the modern-day countries of Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, Belize, and Mexico (specifically the southern areas, including Oaxaca). The Olmec civilization was the oldest civilization of Mesoamerica, ...
Birth of Civilization Another major shift occurred first in the plains along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in the region the Greeks and Romans called Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), later in the val- ley of the Nile River in Egypt, and somewhat later in India and the Yellow River basin in ...
1.society,people,community,nation,polityHe believed Western civilization was in grave economic and cultural danger. 2.culture,development,education,progress,enlightenment,sophistication,advancement,cultivation,refinementa race with an advanced state of civilization ...
All the while, Modern man was also migrating northward through east Africa. Some of these people found their way to the Nile Valley and founded the Egyptian civilization. Others kept going, and founded the Canaanite civilization in modern Israel/Palestine, the Sumerian civilization in Iraq, the ...
1.An early Mesoamerican Indian civilization centered in the Veracruz region of southeast Mexico that flourished between 1300 and 400bc, whose cultural influence was widespread throughout southern Mexico and Central America. 2.A member of any of various peoples sharing the Olmec culture. ...
Tikal,likely calledYax MutalorYax Mutulby its inhabitants, was the capital city of one of the most powerful kingdoms of the ancient Maya civilization. It's in the rainforest in the Petén Basin of today's Guatemala. Tikal dominated the Maya region economically, politically, and militarily. ...
The Olmec were the first great Mesoamerican civilization. They thrived along Mexico’sGulf coast, mainly in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco, from about 1200 to 400 B.C., although there were pre-Olmec societies before that and post-Olmec (or Epi-Olmec) societies afterward. The...
Before the dawn of the Olmec civilization, trade in Mesoamerica was common. Highly desirable items like obsidian knives, animal skins, and salt were routinely traded between neighboring cultures. The Olmecs created long-distance trade routes to obtain the things they needed, eventually making contacts...