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The Olmec

By Lbrennan24
  • 1000 BCE

    Food they ate

    Food they ate
    They ate a lot of food like fruits and vegetables. They ate fish, turtles, snakes, and mollusks.
  • 1000 BCE

    Farming

    Farming
    The olmec were good at hunting, fishing, and farming. When they go hunting, and fishing they bring food for themselves on other people that live or stay their.
  • 900 BCE

    A new capital

    A new capital
    In 900 BCE the Centre of San Lorenzo is destroyed. The monuments the Olmecs built that took years were defaced and destroyed. After that La Venta becomes the Olmecs capital.
  • 900 BCE

    When they were buried

    When they were buried
    Most of the heads were buried sometime in the 900 in what appears to have been a purposeful ritual distancing with the past. However, it has also been suggested that some of the heads were buried shortly after their production in a process of ancestor worship or that they were defaced and buried by subsequent rulers to legitimize their claim to power and exclude competing lineages.
  • 900 BCE

    symmeetrically

    In 900 BCE is when La Venta is becoming the capital the population got to 18,000 people in one city! Also it was the very first place in mesoamerica to have a pyramid built on it. Did you know that all the buildings were lined up symmetrically?
  • 800 BCE

    Creating a religious

    Creating a religious
    The Olmecs created a religious center at San Lorenzo when they built temples and stone houses on a plateau. However San Lorenzo was destroyed about 900 BC. The Olmecs built a new religious center at La Venta about 800 BC, including a 30 meter high pyramid.
  • 400 BCE

    southern Gulf Coast of Mexico

    southern Gulf Coast of Mexico
    They flourished in the southern Gulf Coast of Mexico between 1300 BC and 400 BC. The Olmecs influenced all the other civilizations that came later. So much so that they are sometimes called the mother culture. The Olmecs built the first cities in Mexico.
  • 400 BCE

    Support

    Support
    The Olmecs were the first major civilization in Mexico following a progressive development in Soconusco. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco. This is at the end of their civilization when they gave the most progress to the development of Soconusco around 400 BCE
  • 300 BCE

    Sport

    Sport
    A court to play ulama was built around 300 BCE. The Olmecs used latex balls for the game. The Olmecs processed rubber using latex from trees mixed with juice from the morning glory vine. The rubber was use a bouncy ball for their ball games.
  • 1200

    The olmec civilization

    The olmec civilization
    The olmec civilization believed to have been centred around the southern Gulf of Mexico area further south east than the heart of the Aztec empire. The Olmec culture developed in the centuries before 1200. And the olmec declined around the year 400.