Mesoamerica
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| 252531761 | Migration to Mesoamerica | - 9500 BCE - Latin Americans reach tip of South America | 0 | |
| 252531762 | Olmecs | - 8000 BCE - 100 BCE - earliest culture of Central America - built complex pyramids and human heads - influenced maize, ceremonial centers, calendar, human sacrifice, ball game | 1 | |
| 252531763 | La Venta | most prominent Olmec center | 2 | |
| 252531764 | Obsidian | material from which Olmecs fashioned tools | 3 | |
| 252531765 | Zapotec | (500 BCE) writing system of Olmecs | 4 | |
| 252531766 | Teotihuacan | - largest Olmec city - high point 400-600 CE - 2/3 of inhabitants work in fields | 5 | |
| 252531767 | Tikal | - most important Mayan political center (300-900 CE) | 6 | |
| 252531768 | Popul Vuh | myth= gives the justification of human creation - taught that gods created humans out of maize and water | 7 | |
| 252531769 | bloodletting | -important ritual of Mayan culture - mutilation - pleases the gods | 8 | |
| 252531770 | Chavin Cult | - 900 to 300 BCE - complex society of the Andes | 9 | |
| 252531771 | Early Andean state | Mochica (300 -700 CE) in northern Peru | 10 | |
| 252531772 | Lapita Society | from New Guinea (1500-500 BCE) | 11 |
