Considered a World in Itself, the Mayan Culture covered an extended area of the American Continent.
The Maya World was located from the low and jungle lands of the Yucatan Peninsula in South East Mexico, over the Mountains of Chiapas, through Belize, Guatemala and Honduras. Considered a very developed civilization in it’s time, the Mayans used the cero in their numeral system and were able to achieve extraordinary calculations, present in their precise architecture and the development of the Calendar used today, all over the Planet. Calculations and the calendar also taught precision in agriculture, knowing when to seed the land and when to harvest.
Mayas developed large and intensively populated cities. They held people together through an absolute rule shared by a Government Class formed by Force, Religion and Astronomy. They built close to water sources and grew with survivals of hundreds of years in the same communities, vanishing in circumstances of dryness or epidemic. Major archeological site are near rivers, lagoons, the ocean and surface cracks, connecting to underground rivers. You will identify the remains of these communities in the different construction techniques and through the influence of other aborigine cultures. Each archeological site will tell you a different story through inscriptions, stalls and carvings on their buildings or through paintings. Even though five Centuries have gone by since the Discovery of the Americas and the Mayan World, we continue to learn how it was possible to live with a different life style than what was the European Standard of the Middle Ages.
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