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• • The Olmec built a far reaching empire.• The Olmec enjoyed rich farming
resources. • They built drainage systems to divert
water to protect there crops.• They used the river for trading.• Built the first planned city in the
Americas.
• The Maya people built a civilization in the steamy rain forests of the Yucatán Peninsula.
• The Maya traded throughout Mesoamerica.
• They used their central location to reach in to Mexico and Central America.
• The Maya, like many others, traded in seagoing canoes paddled along the coast, to the present-day United States.
This civilization was developed in west coast of South America.
The Moche lived in the coastal desert where Peru is today.
• Their civilization was from A.D. 100 to A.D. 700.
• The eat mainly corn, squash, beans, and peanuts.
• The Moche engineers built huge pyramids and traded in the Amazon River.
• The Moche civilization was replaced by a new civilization called the Inca.