Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• Mesoamerican region
• Arose in areas that had robust
agriculture in the Andes Region
• Olmecs – “Nahuatl” language
which means “rubber people”
DISTRIBUTION AND
SPREAD OF RELIGIONS
• 2 types of Religion UNIVERSAL and ETHNIC
• Accompanying the spread and dispersion is the
influence of local cultures.
• This gives rise to certain changes in many religion,
the present is often far from the original form.
• Adaptation to local cultures is key to survival &
growth of religion.