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the Olmec used rivers to travel between cities and build a trade system to trade things like Olmec artifacts.

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Why did the Olmec use rivers as trade routes?

because it lead them to were they wanted to go


Why did the Olmec civilizations not depend on rivers for growing crops?

The Olmecs lived in an area with bundant rainfall.


Why did Olmec civilization not depend on rivers for growing crops?

The Olmecs lived in an area with bundant rainfall.


Why do you think the olmec use river as trade systems?

The system were important to them and there were no way to use them as normal rivers.


Where Did the olmec live near rivers?

near the crops


What are Olmec cities?

By the early 1200s BC the Olmec were living along coastal rivers in villages of small houses made of reeds and straw. People fished in the rivers and farmed land made fertile by river flooding.


What made the development of olmec civilization possible?

they settled near rivers and began to farm


Why do you think the Olmec used rivers as trade routes?

Maybe they did not want to cross over the mountains.


Why you think the Olmec used rivers as trade routes?

Maybe they did not want to cross over the mountains.


Did the Olmec use math?

Yes the olmec used math on a daily basis. They had 3 symblos


What type of language did the Olmec's use?

The Olmec probably used a form of the Mexican language as they were the first major civilization to inhabit Mexico. They lived in the area around the low lands of south-central Mexico which today is known as Veracruz and Tabasco.


What did the Olmec hunt?

The Olmec hunted and gathered fish, turtle, snake, and mollusks from the nearby rivers, and crabs and shellfish in the coastal areas. Birds were taken, as were game including peccary, oppossum, raccoon, rabbit, and deer.