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The American Indians
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Inuits and Yupiks were tribes who lived there and Eskimos are also considered to be tribe who lived there.


MESOAMERICA

About 1400 BC, in Mesoamerica had developed impressive civilizations. Civilization was divided into several tribes like Olomec tribe which got so huge that it was one whole new civilization,also there were Teotihuacan who were also as huge as Olomec. Olomec civilization. They established one of the first major civilizations. They lived along the central coast of the Gulf of Mexico, west of the Jucatan Peninsula in the swampy jungle river basins of the present-day Mexican states of Veracruz and Tabasco. Olomec culture developed between about 1500 and 6oo BC, their oldest known center San Lorenzo was destroyed around 9oo BC and was replaced by La Venta. La Venta had developed into great urban city. The center of a compleks of temples and plazas was a mounded earthen pyramid about 30 m high. Architecture and sculpture was developed to a great level. Some of their sculptures also can be seen today. Olomec writing and numerical system was the precursor of other Mesoamerican forms of writing.
Teotihuacan civilization is considered that they have begun around 200 BC and flowerished until about AD 650. Pyramid of the Dun – one and the other monuments are unique because they are thr largest structures ever built by Native Americans. These monuments are the Pyramid of the Moon and the Avenue of the Dead. Teotihuacan people had close contact with people of Maya culture from Jucatan and Guatemala. Teotihuacan civilization had left important influence on future generation and people such as the Aztecs.
When Teotihuancans fell and when Maya cities were abandoned around 650 AD a new power – the Toltec begun. A whole empire was built but it had culapsed in 1168… Later there were established new empires and kingdoms: The Tenochtitlan, Mixtec, Taraseon.
Aztec empire had great importance in Mesoamerica. This culture was also great as Olomec and Teotihuacan civilizations. Aztec empire, a state that ruled most of what is now Mexico from about 1427 until 1521, when Spanians tooc control of that place by force, and Tenochtitlan (their capital), was possibly the larges city in the world at the time of the Spanish conquest.




SOUTH AMERICA

South America is divided into four cultural areas. First is Northen South America and the Caribbean , and this culture area includes jungle lowlands and grassy savannah plains.
 
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Zdroje: Encyklopédia historie sveta – Kingfisher Publication , Londýn 1999, Mexička I srednjoamerička mitologija – Irene Nicholson , 1967, Aztékovia, ríša krvi a lesku – Time Life Books , 1992, Mythology (an illustrated Encyclopedia) – Richard Cavenidsch , 1980, Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia – 2002, National Geographic (1491 America before Columbus) – October , 1991
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