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The Maya independently develop the concept of place value in numbers, previously pioneered in Babylon
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Population increase, emergence of regional centers by the end of the Late Formative. In the Maya area this period is marked by massive architecture decorated with giant stucco masks
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The earliest inscriptions in an American script are those of the Zapotecs.
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The Maya adopt the idea of a monarchy for their government. They are now ruled by kings.
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Increasing social inequalities, elite groups connected with wider distribution of luxury items, public architecture and stone monuments.
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The first Mayan calendars are carved into stone.
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This will be one of the major cities in the Maya civilization. It will reach its peak in power during the Classic period.
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Massive stone heads carved by the Olmecs provide a dramatic beginning to the story of American sculpture.
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The Olmecs raise large clay platforms, probably with temples at the top, beginning the long American tradition of sacred pyramids.
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San Lorenzo develops as the first centre of America's earliest civilization, that of the Olmecs
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The Olmec is the first civilization in the Mesoamerica region
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La Venta replaces San Lorenzo as the capital city and cultural centre of the Olmecs
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complex social lifes forms. Population boom.
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The beginning of the Pre-classic Era of Mesoamerica led to the population boom in varies villages. The population boom led to the distributions in specialized jobs. Pottery making begins and beginning of the Mesoamerican Architecture in the area of modern-day El Pinø. Trades began in the Oxcaca Village in the Zapotec Area. Political Organizations established to form an Ajawas or the "uniting of Villages"
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The Transitions of the Hunters-Gatherings life to Village life. That instead hunting for living they change to agriculturing, few migrations occurs during summer of winter. Most of the settlements are in the Yucatan peninsula. Minings are one of the earliest jobs that goes with farming. Used for early currency. Earliest source of minings are marine resources (Coxcatlán, Guilá Naquitz, Gheo Shih, Chantuto, Santa Marta cave, Pulltrouser Swamp).
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By 4500 BC, Villages forms. And the End of the age of Paleo-indian period which also stops the Hunting and Gatherings. Form mostly in the Yucatan Peninsula where source of farming are from the sea and transfers in to a Fresh water river. One of the first village is in the modern-day city of Merida, Mexico. Mining reliance on marine resources (Coxcatlán, Guilá Naquitz, Gheo Shih, Chantuto, Santa Marta cave, Pulltrouser Swamp).
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10000BC- 7500 BC- formation of the earliest migration in to the Americas, seperations and population scatter found oftenly. The earliest scatter would led to formations of the Olmecs, Iroquis and other minor americas tribe in this period, called the Paleo-indians period. Where hunting games occured in the Central America.
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