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c. 600 BC
 
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An Olmec sculptor creates the piece known today as the Wrestler      
c. 400 BC
 
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The Zapotecs create a great city at Monte Alban, continuing the Olmec culture       
c. 300 BC - AD 100
 
 
The people of Paracas, a coastal region of central Peru, create extremely sophisticated fabrics of woven cotton or vicuña wool    
c. 150 BC
 
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The earliest inscriptions in an American script are those of the Zapotecs, from about this period      
c. 50 BC
 
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The Maya independently develop the concept of place value in numbers, previously pioneered in Babylon        
c. 50 BC
 
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The Maya introduce a calendar which has a cycle of fifty-two years, known as the Calendar Round       
c. 100
 
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Teotihuacan, the dominant city in the northern highlands of central America, introduces the god Quetzalcoatl       
Quetzalcoatl, mosaic mask, 15th-16th c.
British Museum

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c. 500
 
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The temple city of Tikal is one of many Mayan city states of the Classic period       
c. 500
 
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Beans are gathered by the Maya from wild cocoa trees and are probably used in a chocolate drink        
c. 500
 
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Mayan priests feature in stone carvings smoking pipes and puffing the smoke towards the sacred sun