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Chi... like Tea

...chen like Ten

It... like Eat

...za like Pizza

(But in Cancun the locals like to call it Chicken Pizza.)

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The Mayan culture disappeared because of drought, disease, over-hunting, warfare, and because of the Spanish conquistadors.

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Well the Mayans weren't an empire, one uses the name of Maya to refer to all of the mesoamerican city-states that were in center America and had common cultural aspects.

The Aztecs appeared in history at about 1100 A.D and some Mayan cities are from as far as 200 A.D so obviously the Mayans came first.

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for the gods

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Traces of Mayan civilization have been found 1700 BC. This is the only American Civilization which started recording their history that's why we can trace back how technology impacted them. They specialized in developing giant buildings and geographic settings. Stone technology can truly be referred to Mayans. Mainly Mayans utilized technology for agriculture, irrigation and construction tasks.

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clay pots, dishes and utensils

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tetegrote

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Autodesk Corporation's Maya is a 3D Modeling and Rendering program, similar to Lightwave, 3DS Max, Pixar's Renderman, and other professional 3D programs. Along with Renderman, it is considered one of the top programs in its class in the world, and arguably one of the top program in its class in the world. Many pictures have received Academy Awards for Visual Effects because their artists used Maya for the film. One of the most recent examples is the Oscar winning "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" - it used Maya for its visual effects throughout the picture. King Kong was also the beneficiary of effects created by Maya.

In addition to 3D work, Maya is also used for Matte painting. Matte paintings are typically used in digital work for backgrounds.

Many special effects companies use Maya. More notable examples are Lucas film's Industrial Light and Magic, and Matte World Digital.

Autodesk has won a total of 5 Oscars itself from the Academy for significant contibutions to the Motion Picture industry. Last year, it won the Scientific and Technical Oscar for Maya's new Fluid Effects, which allow graphic artists to realistically design better fluid and gas effects on film.

Autodesk's achievements with Maya are not limited to movies - it has also received many awards from the Television and Broadcasting industries. As another person here pointed out, it is also used in the Gaming Industry for 3D game modeling and effects.

Maya is not on the list of cheap programs, even if you're a student. The full version runs close to $2000 or more depending on the version and what you get with it. However, you can download a trial version from the Autodesk site.

Simply put, it is not for the beginner or casual user. It is for those who are professional artists, working at the top of their craft. The same can be said for Renderman, as it has been used by Pixar Animation to create its Oscar winning movies over the years. Many people don't realize that Pixar was originally a Computer company started by George Lucas.

Many people who aren't familiar with 3D techniques start out with Autodesk's 3DS Max, a good program in its own right. While not as powerful as Maya, it does prepare users for the jump to the more complex Maya program.

While Maya isn't for beginners, there are many good training programs available if you're not going to get it in college. One of the better courses is at Lynda.com, which has online courses for most of the top media programs, including Adobe, Autodesk, Macromedia (before the merger - they still have the old courses available) and many programming language courses as well. Annual subscription runs about $400. So if you can swing the cash for Maya, training is accessible. Lynda.com now offers certification in each course completed as well.

Maya also needs pretty powerful equipment to run. Most notebooks or other systems with common ATI Radeon or NVIDIA GeForce chipsets aren't recommended for the 3D processing capability that Maya requires. The Autodesk site has specific requirements for systems to run Maya, and while they're not that steep, they're not that cheap either.

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they lived from 2000b.c to 900A.D

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King Pacal, K'inich K'uk' Bahlam and the Hero twins Hunahpu Xbalanque (altough this ones were mythological)

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The Mayans traded their crops. Including cocoa which was very hard to find, corn, beans, peppers, etc. They also sold pottery and handmade things.

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Tne Olmec, the Zapotec, and the Toltec.

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The Aztec civilization was a large empire with a very centralized form of government and a very distinctive capital city (Tenochtitlan), while the Maya civilization was composed of a series of city-states with no centralized government.

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It depends, but the earliest record excavated from Mayan records were in 1100 A.D. that we have excavated so far and the first Greek records were In the B.C era's we've only scratched the surface with the Mayan excavation so that's why my conclusion is it depends

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The glyphs on it tell the Aztec history of the world.

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The Mayan Trade System, The Mayan City Building, The Mayan Number System, and The Mayan Calendar.

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nobody knows for sure. there are people all over the world! i hope this helps.

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Joseph McCoy McCoy built a hotel, stockyard, office and bank in a little village along the Union Pacific that was called Abilene, Kansas, and encouraged Texas cattlemen to drive their Longhorn cattle to the railhead there, thus beginning the era of cattle raising in Texas and drive to the railroad for market in Chicago and the east.

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The ancient Maya developed advanced systems of astronomy and mathematics, an accurate calendar system, extensive trade routes, and a religion dominated by blood sacrifices. Without benefit of metal tools, beasts of burden, or even the wheel, they were still masters of architecture, building elaborate pyramids and sprawling cities

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They are similar because They all did something like incas made a stonhedge without technology, and aztecs made sacrifices, and mayas made a long journey to the New World

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Mexico The Halls of Montezuma are in Mexico City and the war in which the phase "Halls of Montezuma" refer to was the Mexican War of 1847. The "Shores of Tripoli" refers the the USMC involvement in the "Barbary Wars" to fight the pirates in Libya.

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The Navigation Acts were created by England to restrict trade with its colonies. England wanted to stop trading between its colonies and other European countries such as France and the Netherlands.

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Yes the Mayas did. They had a strong military defence. They had fair laws that state that you get one warning, but if you broke it again you would have your hair cut short, be stoned ect.