Believe it or not the country we now refer to as Iraq is considered to be the cradle of civilization.
The Olmec civilization was located in Mesoamerica. Specifically, it was a Pre-Columbian civilization living in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the modern-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco.The Olmec civilization was located in south-central Mexico. The area was what we now know as Veracruz and Tabasco.
It is the Valley of Mexico
it was the birth of civilization as we now know it.
Iran used to be called Persia. It changed its name in the early 1920s. (Prussia, which sounds similar, is an entirely different country, formerly located in the eastern part of, what is now, United Germany
The Cherokee.. I'm pretty sure!
The Cherokee.. I'm pretty sure!
The Mayan civilization qualifies as such.
The civilization of Mesopotamia was located in the Fertile Crescent, now present-day Iraq.
Neither of those lived in the southeast US. The Mayan civilization was in southern Mexico and Latin America; the Aztecs were in central Mexico.
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The Incas lived in what is now Peru. Their civilization spanned from the early 15th century until the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Today, their descendants continue to live in various regions of Peru.
The Olmec people first become known to us as a pre-Columbian civilization in the tropical lowlands of what is now south-central Mexico from as early as 1500 BC. The cultures from which the Olmec derived flourished in the area as early as about 2500 BC, but the first clearly Olmec center appears within the city of San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán around 1400 BC. The Olmec cannot be said to have "first settled" anywhere, because they developed from communities already in place in the region.
Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna (on the eastern coast of Asia Minor, now modern-day Turkey), lived from about 70 A.D. to 156 A.D. He was a disciple of St. John and one of the early Christian church fathers.
Mohenjo daro and Harappa were located in what is now Pakistan. The cities were part of the Indus Valley Civilization which is sometimes called the Harappan Civilization.
The development of agriculture made early civilization posssible. Now they could feed groups of more than a few dozen.
The Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Nation lived in what is now Montana on the eastern slopes of the Rockies