MYP3 Ancient Olmec Civlization Class Inquiry


Dear MYP3 Students, please read the following article by Mark Cartwright titled OLMEC CIVILIZATION. And answer the following questions-

MYP3 Ancient Olmec Civlization Class Inquiry

CLASSWORK
THE OLMEC CIVILIZATION INQUIRY QUESTIONS


Answer the following questions. Provide FULL answers (in well written sentences)

1.  In what time period did the Olmec live?
2.  How did they codify and record its gods and religious practices?
3.  Define de word precursor
4.  Why do we say that the Olmec were the precursors of other civilizations?
5.  What were the major subsequent civilizations after the Olmec people?
6.  What kind of practices were passed on to sb
7.  The article talks about features in the Olmec culture like massive stone sculptures. Please name at least two more.
8.  The Olmecs also liked to mix animals to create weird and wonderful creatures such as the were-jaguar. A were-jaguar was a combination of _________ and __________?
9.  How heavy were the colossal basalt heads?
10.                    In what location was the first pyramid built in Mesoamerica?
11.                   Olmec’s religion is sketchy. The Olmecs seem to have had a particular reverence for natural places which connected with the important junctions of ________, _______ and the _________.

12.                   What name adopts the feathered-snake god in the Mayan Culture? In the Aztec Culture?

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