Ancient Tribes of South America

Incas
Fact 1. The Incas lived in Andes Mountains in South America in today’s Peru, Ecuador and parts of Chile, Bolivia, Colombia, and Argentina
Facts 2. The Incas’ Kingdom lasted from 1200-1500 AD
Facts 3. The Incas called their ruler Sapa Inca and they considered him to be the child of the Sun. Ordinary people were not allowed to touch the king or even to look at his face. The king was also a military leader.
Fact 4. The most famous Inca’s city was Machu Picchu, or at least it the most famous today because it stayed well preserved as it was situated on a high mountain top thus survived Spanish invasion, which ended the Inca Kingdom.
Fact 5. Incas didn’t have written language; instead they used knotted strings for communication. They were also very advanced in area of medicine, they even performed skull surgery.
Olmec Tribes
Fact 1. The first signs of civilization in Central America were the Olmecs an ancient Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico,
Fact 2. The Olmec domain extended from the Tuxtlas mountains in the west to the lowlands of the Chontalpa in the east,
Fact 3. Olmec art forms emphasize both monumental statuary and small jade carvings and jewelry. Much Olmec art is highly stylized and uses an iconography reflective of the religious meaning of the artworks
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Toltecs
1. Totecs were the people and the cuture that existed in today’s Mexico between 950-1200 AD

2. They were a war-like people and expanded rapidly throughout Mexico, Guatemala, and the Yucatán peninsula. At the top of their society was a warrior aristocracy


3. The Toltecs believed in cult of Quetzalcoatl, the "Soveriegn Plumed Serpent," and created a mythology around it. In Toltec legend, Quetzalcoatl was the creator of humanity and a warrior-god

4. The Toltecs also creted the Central American ball-game, which was played on a large stone court with a rubber ball. The game was primarily a religious ritual and involved the human sacrifice of the loser.

5. The Toltecs conquered large areas controlled by the Maya and settled in these areas; they migrated as far south as the Yucatán peninsula. The culture borne out of this fusion is called the oltecT-Maya, and its greatest center was Chichén Itzá— on the very tip of the Yucatan peninsula.