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Civilization: Olmecs in Mesoamerica

 * Name: Priscilla Fernandez**


 * **Theme** || **How does this theme apply to your civilization?** ||
 * Gender roles and relations || * When it came to rituals, Maya rulers and their family members regularly spilled their own blood by opening wounda. Men drew blood from the penis and women usually drew from the tongue. ||
 * Family and kinship || none ||
 * Racial and ethnic constructions || * Mesoamerican life quickened with constructions of temples, pyramids, and palaces.*  Colossal Olmec heads were constructed from Basal rock and were thought to possibly be likeness of rulers.*  The temple of the Giant Jaguar represented Tikal's control over the surrounding region. ||
 * Social and economic classes || * Several Mesoamerican societies adopted several Olmec traditions such as cultivating maize and maintaining a calendar.
 * Mayan merchants came from ruling and noble classes.
 * Large classes of peasants and slaves fed the entire society and provided labor for constructions. ||