Prof. Nail's Hy 104 World History course. Chapter 6, Early Societies: Americas and Oceania
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| 303374948 | Olmec | The first Mesoamerican civilization. Between ca. 1200 and 400 B.C.E., the Olmec people of central Mexico created a vibrant civilization that included intensive agriculture, wide-ranging trade, ceremonial centers, and monumental construction. (86) | |
| 303374949 | San Lorenzo | the first Olmec ceremonial center that arose about 1200 B.C.E. | |
| 303374950 | Kaminaljuyu | Thia Southern Mayan city had many impressive structures including a necropolis complex. | |
| 303374951 | Maya | a member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy | |
| 303374952 | Chichen itza | A large small city Mayan kingdom. They accoustomed captives into their own society. Organzied an empire that brought political stability to northen Yucatan, who it lost its empire to. | |
| 303374953 | Chavin | the first major South American civilization, which flourished in the highlands of what is now Peru from about 900 to 200 B.C. | |
| 303374954 | Popol Vuh | Mayan creation epic, taught that god created humans out of maize and water. | |
| 303374955 | Teotihuacan | A powerful city-state in central Mexico (100-75 C.E.). Its population was about 150,000 at its peak in 600. | |
| 303374956 | Mochica | Pre-Incan South American society (300-700) known for their brilliant ceramics. | |
| 303374957 | Lapita | Society from New Guinea to Tonga (1500-500 B.C.E.) with agricultural villages, networks of trade and communication, and hierarchical chiefdoms. |
