The earliest people to settle in Meso-America are the Olmec. The Olmec had a rich society and traded with neighboring tribes such as the Mokaya which were a civilization of the Soconusco region. The Olmec civilization was thought to decline because of natural ecological changes like climate change or human actions such as warfare.
The Olmec culture was the civilization that developed during the Preclassic period of Mesoamerica. Although vestiges of its presence have been found in large areas of Mesoamerica, it is considered that the Olmec nuclear area -the metropolitan zone- covers the southeastern part of the state of Veracruz and the west of Tabasco.
The economy of the Olmecs was based on agricultural products, with which they traded, both among themselves and with other neighboring peoples, especially with nomadic peoples, or with peoples as geographically distant from them as may be peoples of the country of Guatemala or of central Mexico.
By issuing the Declaration of Independence, adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, the 13 American colonies severed their political connections to Great Britain.
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