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Mayor Olmec cities
La Venta and San Lorenzo
Name of the twin brothers
Hunahpú and Ixbalanque
The name Olmec means...
Rubber people
Name of the underworld in the Popol Vuh
Xibalbá
According to the Mayan myth, men were successfully created with...
Corn
In which states the Olmec culture developed?
Tabasco and Veracruz
The Olmec government was...
Theocratic
What did the twin brothers when they had enough from their stepbrothers?
They forced them to climb a tree, and with magic they belonged so much the tree that they turn into monkeys
They left a very important activity to the following cultures of Mexico
The ball game
How it finished the Olmec culture?
It is a mistery
It was the base food of Olmecs
Fish
The first material used by the Mayan gods to create men
Mud
The Olmec religion was...
Polytheistic
Main Mayan gods
Kukulcan and Huracan
How the twin brothers finally overthrow the Xibalbá Lords?
When they returned from the river and dominated the underworld people, they let them live if they give up to evil
Why the ball game was important for early cultures?
Because it represents honor, the losers were sacrificed
Tell what the gods of the underworld did with the twin's bones once they overcome them
They crush their bones and throw the ashes to the river
Is a sacred book of the Mayans
Popol Vuh
Mayan god responsible for storms, floods, earthquakes, etc.
Huracan
This animal was considered sacred for the Olmecs
Jaguar
Mesoamerican civilization that developed the first writing system of America
The Mayans
The most representative Olmec art is...
The colossal stone heads
How the maid ( mother of the twins) get pregnant?
When she walks by the tree where the head of the brother was hanged and was spit
Why the Mayan gods destroyed the first men?
Because they did not worship them
In the end, the twins turn into...
gods, the sun and the moon