The name of this Central American people who predated the Mayans means "The Rubber People"
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Texas Black History Preservation Project -- Olmecs  Mexico south to Costa Rica), often centers around what is called the Olmec civilization. ... culture Olmec, which means the "rubber people" or people from the rubber ... presence of the Olmecs predates the Mayan civilization by more than 1,500 years and ... Gulf Coast, the Olmec influence spread through Central America
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The Olmecs. - Ancient-Wisdom  The Olmecs: (The 'Rubber People') ... All of these features are seen in later Meso-American cultures justifying the Olmecs status ... including Mike Xu, professor of Chinese studies at the University of Central Oklahoma, the ... In Mesoamerica, Jade was equally valued and was esteemed by both the Olmec and Mayan elite.
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1650 BC - The Marduk Connection - Wu-Tang Corp. - Official Site of ...  This people, now called The Olmecs, (the "Rubber People") have no .... that Caral predated Mayan settlements in Mexico and Central America by .... This does not mean we do it every 40 years but it states we do it very rarely.
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The Truth-Seeker - Timeline | Facebook  For ordinary people in pursuit of extraordinary knowledge. ... Central American monuments show numerous carving of them as gods. ... These Olmecs were Blacks and they were called the 'rubber people. ... impact on the development of the Aztec, Mayan and Inca civilizations, which it predated by several centuries.
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Refuting Afrocentrism Part 1: Olmecs Were Africans ...  Dec 25, 2015 ... Recent new evidence has said that the Olmecs and the Maya were easy to ... Both Central and South American Indians are genetically distinct from the rest of the world. ... The name 'Olmec' is a Nahuatl word meaning 'the Rubber People' ... He wrote a book called They Came Before Columbus: The African...
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History - Anguilla History | Caribya!  Early European explorers could have easily overlooked the island of Anguilla ... This uniquely shaped Caribbean destination boasts a rich history that is similar in ... These indigenous people came to Anguilla in dugout canoes and rafts. ... The Amerindians called the island Malliouhana, which means "arrow-shaped sea...
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Carib - New World Encyclopedia  Nov 13, 2014 ... Columbus named these natives Caniba, after the land other tribes referred to as ... culture has focused upon their aggressive and war-like characteristics. ... It is now extinct, but was spoken on the Lesser Antilles until the 1920s ... from the original Amerindian inhabitants of Trinidad; Amerindians from the...
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Zapotec Civilization - Ancient History Encyclopedia  Oct 28, 2013 ... The Zapotecs, known as the 'Cloud People', dwelt in the southern highlands of central Mesoamerica, specifically, in the Valley of ... Other relief stones from the temple also provide the first certainly identified written texts in ... The city further developed between 150 BCE and 150 CE to create Monte Albn II.
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jeopardy/1966_Qs.txt at master  jedoublen/jeopardy  GitHub  PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES | Warriors of this Yucatan civilization battle in the computer-enhanced mural seen here: | Mayans. right: Susan. Wrong:.
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Maya Civilization and Timeline Belize and Central America ...  Timeline History of the Maya of Belize and Central America including the Maya ... It is abandoned (for reasons unknown) a hundred years later and its people ... A people known as the Uicil-abnal, which later takes the name Itz, settles in ... Within a century, 90 per cent of Mesoamerica's native populations will be killed off.
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A Brief History of Rubber - Rainforests - Mongabay  With the invention of the automobile in the late 19th century, the rubber boom began. ... Manaus, situated on the Amazon where it is met by the Rio Negro, became the ... rich with oil and latex, could not survive the long Atlantic journey from Brazil. ... areas in Southeast Asia, the U.S. feared it would run out of the vital material.
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An A-Z of country name origins | OxfordWords blog  May 17, 2016 ... Barbados is a Spanish word meaning 'bearded' or 'the bearded ones'. ... derived from the Huron-Iroquois word kanata, meaning 'village' or ..... Switzerland takes its name from Schwyz, a German-speaking forest community...
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Jeopary Questions page 2269 - CROSSWORD CLUES "P ...  THE PLANETS: It's the only planet that has yet to be visited by a spacecraft ... WORD ORIGINS: They got their name from the wooden sandals worn by the French court to protect shoes on ... WORD ORIGINS: This light wood gets its name from the Spanish for "raft" because people in the tropics have used its logs for rafts.
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Anguilla History | Anguilla Vacation & Travel Guide  Originally named Malliouhana, meaning arrow-shaped sea serpent, the island was ... It was then that Amerindian peoples first arrived from South America. ... thousand years, a succession of tribes and cultures called the island home. ... By the 1800s Anguilla was thriving as a plantation economy like most of the Caribbean.
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Pre-Columbian Civilizations | Britannica.com  Spanish conqueror of the Inca empire and founder of the city of Lima. ... According to legend he was for a time a swineherd, a not unlikely possibility since this was. ... Before the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Central America, the Maya...
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Carioca - definition and synonims of carioca in english dictionary  Carioca is a Brazilian adjective or demonym that is used to refer to the native ... The original word, kara'i oka, comes from the indigenous Tupi language . ... "kara'i oka", comes from the indigenous Tupi language meaning "white man's house". ... The demonym meaning for the state of Rio de Janeiro is fluminense, taken from...
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History of Central America - Wikipedia  The history of Central America is the study of the region known as Central America. ... Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Panama.
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Mesoamerica - Wikipedia  Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian ... While Mesoamerican civilization did know of the wheel and basic metallurgy, neither of these...
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FIELD LISTING - CIA  etymology: "antiguo" is Spanish for "ancient" or "old"; the island was discovered by ... etymology: the origin of the island's name is unclear; according to tradition, the name .... etymology: in the 15th century, Portuguese explorers named the area near the ..... Guinea-Bissau, `conventional long form: Republic of Guinea-Bissau
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Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Chichen Itza  Chichen Itza is a Maya name meaning "At the mouth of the wells of the Itza people", which ... plentiful water year round at Chichen made it a natural spot for a center of population. ... The Sacred Cenote was long a place of pilgrimage Yucatan.
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Giants of the Americas: Who were they and where did they come from?  Oct 27, 2015 ... Around the neck was a collar of bear's teeth and across the thighs ... via historian Peter Martyr who assisted at the Council of the Indies. ... He wore brightly colored paint or tattoos on his skin that distinguished him from the commoners. ... placed that gave the village its name, many skeletons were exposed...