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    Olmec Maya Aztecs Inca

    Start of Civilization 1200 BCE 2500 BC 1325 AD 1400 CE


    Decline of Civilization 400 BCE 1500 AD 1521 1533 CE
    Location Located in present-day Located in present-day Yucatan Located in present-day Mexico, Located in present-day Peru,
    Nicaragua, Mexico Peninsula, Mexico Central & South America Western South America

    Population >2,000,000 people <2,000,000 people 5 to 6 million people Ten million people

    Achievements Cultivated Cocoa for chocolate Advanced and excelled in Nahuatl, their main language Considered not only the largest
    production. Chocolate was then mathematics, agriculture, was the dominant language in empire in the Americas, but
    used in ceremonial drinks and calendar making & artwork. the region and their culture and also one of the largest in the
    for momentous events. Known They used a system of writing language are still there today as world. Included ten million
    for being the first great called hieroglyphics (like the Aztec words such as chili, people with at least thirty
    Mesoamerican culture. writing system of Ancient avocado, chocolate, coyote & diverse languages spoken
    Egypt). guacamole have been absorbed throughout the kingdom. Fierce
    into English and Spanish & conquering civilization with
    languages. Hunter gatherer sophisticated infrastructure,
    society that developed structured government &
    advanced agricultural practices advanced society. Special
    and a powerful military. communication system called
    quipu (series off strings woven
    together that can be read &
    interpreted as stories, symbols
    & mathematical calculations.
    Grew several crops.

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