# data[].attributes.body
The Inca Civilization had the Andes Mountains, Amazon Jungle, and a coastal desert for natural barriers.

# data[].attributes.body
Around 800 C.E. the Maya began to abandon their cities and their population declined. The reason for these events are unknown, but could be due to disease, war, or a lack of food.

# data[].attributes.body
The Olmec Civilization is known as the Mother Culture to the other civilizations, because it came first and influenced the civilizations to come.

# data[].attributes.body
The Aztec lived in a swampy area that wasn't great for farming so the solved that problem with chinampas.

# data[].attributes.body
The Inca Civilization was a communist government, and the head was called the Sapa Inca.

# data[].attributes.body
The Mayans played a game called pok-a-tok like the Olmec did.

# data[].attributes.body
The Aztec civilization fell when it was conquered by Spanish Conquistadors and their native american partners in 1521.

# data[].attributes.body
The people of the Inca Empire were divided into the nobles and the commoners.

# data[].attributes.body
The Aztecs sent the children to school, because they knew they would need engineers, builders, and other specialist to build Tenochtitlan.

# data[].attributes.body
The big stone heads that the Olmec made are a mystery to us why they were made.

# data[].attributes.body
The Maya Civilization, at its peak, covered the Yucatan Peninsula and stretched down to the northern parts of El Salvador and Honduras.

# data[].attributes.body
The Aztec people believed in multiple gods, and practiced human sacrifice because the believed that the gods needed to be fed in order to do their jobs.

# data[].attributes.body
For two hundred years the Aztecs were nomadic, but the eventually settled down in the Valley of Mexico.

# data[].attributes.body
The people of the Maya Civilization believed in multiple gods, so their religion was polytheistic. (sun god, maize god

# data[].attributes.body
The people of the Olmec Civilizations believed in multiple gods, so their religion was polytheistic. (sun god, maize god)

# data[].attributes.body
The Olmec people played a game called pok-a-tok.

# data[].attributes.body
Local officials kept a detailed census, so they could make sure the people paid their service tax in physical labor.

# data[].attributes.body
The people of the Inca Civilization lived in Cuzco, high in the Andes Mountains, and their empire eventually extended all the way down to Chile.

# data[].attributes.body
The Mayans invented the idea of the number zero and an accurate calendar.

# data[].attributes.body
The Olmec Civilization flourished in the southern region of Mesoamerica.