Comparing The Anasazi Indians And Olmec People

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As indian civilizations have been coming and going throughout history most of them leave their tools behind as well as their strategies of surviving. Many of them are still being used in present day such as agriculture and how they are organized and the tools we use. These civilizations learned to survive by creating new techniques in agriculture and archeology. One of the top civilizations that had great reigns where the Anasazi tribe as well as The Olmec people. These two civilizations had a lot of similarities as they had a diet involving a lot of corn. We can still see today that corn is majorly part of our diet, in america we have a lot of products that are mainly produced with corn as an ingredient. This led for them to find different ways to crop this but in a very similar way as well.

One of the known culture and tribes were the Anasazi people. They were also referred as the Ancient people. They were more developed than any other Indian civilization. The civilization grew in the dry lands of the Southwest. This was about the 100 B.C to 1300 A.D. They lived near river valleys, near small towns. Thousands of years ago, the Anasazi lived in Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, and Colorado. Since they lived near rivers, farming was a big factor to this The Anasazi people …show more content…

Their homes were surrounded by tropical lowlands in Mexico which in present day is Veracruz and Tabasco. Their reign was from 1500 BCE to about 400 BCE. One of the things they are known for are the artifacts that were found. For example for their leaders they created colossal stone heads that til this day are shown as exhibitions. Also they were known for their agriculture as their 3 main foods were corn, beans and fish. Particularly the corn was very important to them as corn was planted as it is today and this was part of their diet due to it being used as an ingredient in many foods. They used pottery as new tools