OlmecThe Mysterious Empire

BY: Evelyn Aung

Pongpon Temee

Mystery of the Olmec

In the swampy lowlands of southern Mexico , the Olmec people built the earliest civilization in Americans

By 1200BC, they had large cities and religous centers.

Mystery of the Olmec

Olmec carved enormous stone heads which represented their gods

Mystery of the Olmec

There are very little known by olmec except that they were highly organized and built huge monuments .

They made some known advances in civilization ,like a simple pictogram writing(like hieroglyphics) and simple system of mathematics.

Mystery of the Olmec

In 400BC, the Olmec mysteriously abandoned their cities and dissapeared.

They smashed or buried the giant stone gods and left their cities forever.

They dissapear from history without an explanation

Difference of the American pyramids The pyramids of ancient civilizations

in South America, like that of the Olmec, from those in Egypt and Sudan. Maya and Aztec,were different

The American pyramids were not tombs, but temples.

More Olmec contributions

The Olmecs were aparently the first Mesoamerican people to fathom the “concept of zero,develop calendar, create a hierogluphic writing system,and the first drainage system.

Buried the giant stone gods

Quiz

(1) Olmec the______________empire (2) What does the enormous stone

heads represents? (3) Give atleast 2 contributions of

Olmec. (4) In what year did Olmec abandon

their cities and dissapesar? (5) There are very little knowns by

omec except?

Bonus

What is always coming but never arrives ??????

Answers

(1) Mysterious (2) Their Gods (3) concept of zero develop calendar create a hierogluphic writing system the first drainage system simple pictogram simple system of mathematics. (4) 400BC

Answers

(5) were highly organized and built huge monuments

(Bonus) “Tomorrow” Because Tomorrow will alway the day

coming next

Thank you