Olmecs (1 gen 1200 anni a. C. – 1 gen 100 anni a. C.)
Descrizione:
Central Mexico (more or less)DISCLAIMER: we don't know that much about it.
Lots of rainfall, so no need for complex irrigation systems but very complex drainage systems so the cities didn't flood.
Probably authoritarian system.
Lots of temples, pyramids (which were more like Mesopotamian ziggurats than Egyptian pyramids; which is the reason I sometimes confuse Mesopotamia and Mesoamerica; sue me), and tombs (for rulers).
Common people paid and worked for the rulers in giving parts of their harvests and building ceremonial structures for them. (also really big stone heads)
Not much metal available (like at all), so they used OBSIDIAN for tools and weapons.
They traded in Jade with other regions of Mesoamerica.
Influenced other Mesoamerican societies.
No writing system
Culture included sacrificial rituals and ball games, but no one knows why because there are no written records.
(I'm a little conflicted, bear with me: my book says at one point that Olmec society ended at 400 B.C.E., but then two paragraphs later it says 100 B.C.E., so I don't know which one it is. Since it says 100 B.C.E. twice and 400 B.C.E. once, I'm gonna go with the former, but keep this in mind, I guess)
Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:
Data:
1 gen 1200 anni a. C.
1 gen 100 anni a. C.
~ 1100 years
