Olmec culture

The Olmecs appeared in the period:

• Preclassic

• Classic

• Postclassic

• Colonial

The most notable settlements of the Olmecs were:

• La Venta, San Lorenzo, and Tres Zapotes

• Teotihuacán, Monte Albán, and Palenque

• Tula, Chichén Itzá, and Uxmal

• Tenochtitlán, Texcoco, and Tlacopan

The Olmec origins are found in:

• The Yucatán Peninsula and Chiapas

• Teopantecuanitlan in the current state of Guerrero and Chalcatzingo, in today's Morelos.

• The central highlands of Mexico

• The Bajío region

The word Olmec means:

• inhabitant from where the rubber spreads.

• People of the corn

• People of the sun

• People of the mountain

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The rubber used by the Olmecs came from:

• Africa

• Asia

• rubber tree with which they made balls for their ritual games and anthropomorphic figurines.

• Europe

The Olmec culture is considered:

• The mother culture of Mesoamerica

• An Andean culture

• A European civilization

• A nomadic tribe

The Olmec culture is called the mother culture of Mesoamerica because:

• It was the first major civilization in the region and laid the foundations for other cultures.

• It was the last civilization to disappear in Mesoamerica.

• It militarily dominated all other Mesoamerican cultures.

• It developed the most advanced writing system in the region.

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Choose the option that describes the demographic growth that occurred in the Middle Preclassic Period:

• Decrease in population

• Population stagnation

• The villages were transformed into cities that housed thousands of inhabitants, and settlements of political and economic power emerged in the Gulf and other areas of Mesoamerica, and religious that had ceremonial centers .

• Mass migration to other regions

During the Preclassic period, what characteristic stood out in architecture?

• The differentiation between public architecture (monumental architecture) and domestic architecture (houses) began.

• The construction of modern skyscrapers

• The development of Gothic architecture

• The use of steel and glass

San Lorenzo was built on a large artificial terrace because:

• it was necessary to protect the city from floods.

• it was an architectural tradition of the region.

• it allowed for better military defense.

• it facilitated trade with other cities.