Vocabulary
What does 'reclaim' mean?
To take something back
Where did the Olmec people first settle?
The Gulf of Mexico, Mexico states of Veracruz and Tabasco.
An Olmec innovation used to carry things, and is still used today, is called?
Tumpline
What were the Mayan picture-symbol writing called?
Glyphs
What is a ceremonial center?
Certain villages, or cities, where religion is central
What did seasonal flooding help the Olmecs with?
Watering their crops and making the soil fertile
How did Olmec ideas spread?
Most likely through trade when people met
A book with lots of glyphs collected inside was called a...?
Codex
Pictures or symbols that represent ideas, objects, or sounds
Glyphs
Two team used to compete in a ceremonial... what?
Ball Game
Religious idea, art, and what(?) were part of
Architecture
What did the rainforest do to abandoned Mayan cities?
Reclaim them, or take them back by growing over them again
What is it called when societies interact and take ideas from another and use them?
Cultural borrowing
Who were the first to borrow and learn from the Olmecs?
The Maya
What was the largest Mayan city?
Tikal
Which vocabulary word has two words, first starts with c, the second with t?
culture traits
In 1989, scientists found three rubber balls in a bog near the old capital city of Olmec civilization. What was the city called?
San Lorenzo
Who wrote "Olmec culture did not die out but was absorbed and passed on"
Richard E. W. Adams
In A.D 900 a new Mayan civilization grew in the ___________ peninsula
Yucatan