Wealth and Power in Mesoamerica
Between 900 and 400 BC, the center of the Olmec empire was La Venta, a city built on a huge plain in the region of what is now the state of Tabasco, Mexico.
At that time, about 350,000 people lived in all the Olmec cities.
Hunting and fishing complemented the diet, in addition to the systematic collection of wild fruits and tubers. Agriculture was of the slash-and-burn type, with the practice of burning to clear the land and fertilize it with the ashes for the next planting.
Commercial practices made society hierarchical, with sophisticated political and social organization. In addition to integration, there was migration between cities and new types of professionals were born, such as stone-cutting sculptors and others.
Agriculture was the basis of the economy. The harvests were bountiful. Along the banks of rivers fertilized by the floods, maize, beans, squash and chili were planted.
Nowadays it is simple to go to a defined address. We have the street name as well as the house number . All this was made compulsory by a decree of 1805. We thank the instigator of this decree, because there was a time, the journey was more epic to get to an individual. In the 17th century, to look