LINKTV Democracy Now March 12, 2014
Music narrator the thousand yearsgo in souern mexico, an unprecedent culture flourished in the jungle nearhe gulf coast. Rivers meandering through the hot, tropical lowlands were the regions lifeblood. Theswaterwayfor transporon and trade enuraged agriculture. Annual floods left deposits of fertile soil, ideal for growing maize, squash and beans. More than two thousand years later, the aztecs called this region olman, or rubber country, the name of the peoples. Who dwelled there in antiquity is lost, but they have become known as olmec. To express their political and religious beliefs, the anc...