{"slug": "olmec", "label": "Olmec", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olmec", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [-1599, -399], "span_label": ["1600 BCE", "400 BCE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mesoamerica", "label": "Mesoamerica", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "mexico", "label": "Mexico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "teotihuacan", "label": "Teotihuacan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1599, "year_label": "1600 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "c. 1600 BC—The foundations of the Olmec civilization in southern Mexico.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1268941907#Events_and_trends", "title": "1600s BC (decade)", "revid": 1268941907, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -1199, "year_label": "1200 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "c. 1200 BC: Olmec culture starts and thrives in Mesoamerica.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350963473#Events_and_trends", "title": "1200s BC (decade)", "revid": 1350963473, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -899, "year_label": "900 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "c. 900 BC — San Lorenzo, the center of early Olmec culture, is destroyed, probably by migrating peoples from the north, and power passes to La Venta in Tabasco.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365903588#Events_and_trends", "title": "900s BC (decade)", "revid": 1365903588, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -899, "year_label": "900 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "c. 900 BC – 600 BC — Great Pyramid and ball court, La Venta, Mexico, is built. Olmec culture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365903588#Events_and_trends", "title": "900s BC (decade)", "revid": 1365903588, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": -599, "year_label": "600 BCE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "The calendrical system begins appearing in areas with strong Olmec influence, continuing to appear until 500 BC (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372139014#North_America", "title": "600 BC", "revid": 1372139014, "section": "Events › By place › North America"}}, {"year": -499, "year_label": "500 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Olmec established Monte Albán, the sacred city, and continued building pyramids. Founded toward the end of the Middle Formative period at around 500 BCE, by the Terminal Formative (ca.100 BCE–CE 200) Monte Albán soon became the capital of a large-scale expansionist polity that dominated much of the Oaxacan highlands and interacts with other Mesoamerican regional states, such as Teotihuacan to the north (Paddock 1983; Marcus 1983).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363151372#Mesoamerica", "title": "500 BC", "revid": 1363151372, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": -399, "year_label": "400 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Olmec culture in Mesoamerica comes to an end as its city of La Venta is abandoned (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361270863#By_place", "title": "400 BC", "revid": 1361270863, "section": "Events › By place"}}]}