Mesoamerica!

Most of the early civilizations centered around the Mediteranean, and that area was basically the "known world". But on the other side of the world, in America, there were also many different civilizations. They started as nomads during the Ice Age and hunted the mammoth. Eventually the mammoth was hunted out and they began to settle and start a civilization. Most of these were in what is now Central America and Mexico, Mesoamerica. It was a very hot and tropical place, a jungle. They had a whole different culture from the people of the Medditeranean. They performed rituals and even built types of pyramids. Scientists believe that the early civilizations of Mesoamerica influenced a lot of the later cultures to live in that area, like the Myans and the Inca.