The Olmec of Mesoamerica

The Olmec culture was the first civilization in all Mesoamerica. They lasted from 1200b.c until almost 400b.c. One of the main possibilities that make that the Olmec lived well in those times, was the geography in Mesoamerica. These geography was better that the one in Los Andes, because Mesoamerica wasn’t in a hilly place, and that help that people in that region, move better through that place. Other advantages were: the use of land for raising crops, without the obstacle of the mountains. In the Olmec culture the social classes were divided like this: first, the ruler, then, the architect, artist, administrators and engineers, and at the last part of the social classes were the farmers.

The Olmec culture was good at art. The most important features were: the jaguar, and the big heads, which reason, for what they were maid, is not well known. The Olmec religion consists in a polytheistic thinking. They also worship the figure of a jaguar, which, in the statues they were, half humane and a half jaguar. The calendar of the Olmec civilization was made, using symbols, which was their first way of writing.

The Olmec were invaded by 400b.c, and later on the Olmec began to disappear. When they disappear, their belief, their art, and their culture, were taken by other cultures. All of these began to spread by the trading of other cultures, because the Olmec were good at the agriculture, but they also need some thing that other people had, like precious stones and metal. For all Mesoamerica, the Olmec civilization was the mother culture.