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A small area off the coast of the gulf of Mexico

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The climate of the Olmec civilization was, dense tropical forest and humid air conditions.

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The  leader of the olmec civilization was called TU.  The Olmec civilization may have been organized into a confederation of city-states lead by a recognized emperor . the Olmec civilization may have been organized into a confederation of city-states lead by a recognized emperor .

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the Olmec best achievements were...
-their art
-their colossal and enigmatic stone heads
-corn
and more....

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Water Drainage Stones were carved into a “U” type of shape and then covered with a capstone. It is believed that these conduits were also used as an aqueduct to provide water to pools and manmade streams were created within the city for bathing.

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modern-day Yucatán, Quintana Roo, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas in Mexico and southward through Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras.

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A great leader of the Mayan was a man named  Janaab' Pakal...

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The climate is generally warm.

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They did a lot of stuff that involved pottery and clay. They sculpted ceramic figures known as babies. This period of the arts was based on mainly ceramics and clay.

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The calendar. The first, known as the Calendar Round, was based on two overlapping annual cycles: a 260-day sacred year and a 365-day secular year. Under this system, each day was assigned four pieces of identifying information: a day number and day name in the sacred calendar and a day number and month name in the secular calendar. Every 52 years counted as a single interval, or Calendar Round. After each interval the calendar would reset itself like a clock.

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The stone heads were carved out of a huge bolder... They were represented to be important peoples heads... (picture above)

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Researchers believe that the Maya discovered this process accidentally, during a religious ritual in which they combined the rubber tree and the morning-glory plant. Once they realized how strong and versatile this new material was, the Maya began to use it in a variety of ways: to make water-resistant cloth, glue, bindings for books, figurines and the large rubber balls used in the ritual game known as pokatok.

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The Maya had a very efficient numeral system with which they could represent very large numbers.

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One of the most striking feature of Maya settlements were elevated limestone roads known as sacbeob (singular sacbe) or “white roads”. Solidly built to withstand the forces of nature, sacbeob often charted a course in remarkably perfect strait lines despite the rough terrain. The most famous sacbe network is found in the Maya city of Coba. It contains roads which are 10 to 30 feet wide and elevated from about 1.5 feet to 8 feet above the forest floor. The longest known Maya sacbe runs 60 miles (97 kms) and connects the ancient cities of Coba and Yaxuna.

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The capital city of the Aztec empire was Tenochtitlan, now the site of modern-day Mexico City. Built on a series of islets in Lake Texcoco, the city plan was based on a symmetrical layout that was divided into four city sections called campan

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warm and temperate.

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Montezuma II, also spelled Moctezuma (born 1466—died c. June 30, 1520, Tenochtitlán, within modern Mexico City), ninth Aztec emperor of Mexico, famous for his dramatic confrontation with the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés.

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~They built some of the most powerful empires of mesoamerica.
~They mastered artificial islands called chinampas.
~They created a major dike aka dam to protect their city from surrounding water.
~They had great knowledge of medicine and could preform surgeries.
~They had a rich tradition in pottery and sculpting

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Chinampas, often referred to as floating gardens, were more accurately artificial islands. The Aztecs perfected the technique of building chinampas allowing them to create new land to farm and to live on. A chinampa was created by staking out the shallow lake bed and weaving the stakes together to form fences. The fenced-off area was then layered with mud, lake sediment and decaying vegetation, eventually bringing it above the level of the lake. Trees were often planted along the perimeter to stabilize the artificially built island.

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In the 1420s, they initiated the construction of the Chapultepec aqueduct to bring clean water to their city from the springs at Chapultepec on the mainland. The aqueduct had two channels each about 5 ft high and 3 ft wide. When one channel was being maintained, the other brought water to the city thus ensuring constant supply. The Chapultepec aqueduct ran for three miles and poured water into public fountains and reservoirs.

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Lake Texcoco was the largest of five interconnected lakes and thus Tenochtitlan was constantly under threat from the large quantity of water surrounding it. A catastrophic flood in the mid 1400s almost destroyed the whole city. To address the issue, the Aztecs designed a huge dike or dam with a height of around 12ft and running for around 10 milesfrom the southern edge of the lake to the north.

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The Native were called savages because the europeans had not ever seen the ways the natives do things.

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Today's cultures celebrate the Natives by having huge parades and dances and parties