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The Mayan civilization was spread through what is now Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, western Honduras, and the southern regions of Mexico. The Mayans are well known for creating the only fully developed written language of pre-Columbian Americas. The Mayans were at the height of their civilization from about 300 to 900 AD, although there are still Mayans today in certain areas of Guatemala and Mexico.

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What sacrifice did many Mayan religious ceremonies include?

They performed on pyramids because the pyramids were extremely religiously important. Mayan priests performed religious ceremonies, maybe pok-a-tok(the Mayan version of basketball) and especially sacrifice, including human.

What was the Mayan currency?

The following (From is more about cacao as a source of chocolate drink, but it does indicated that cacao beans were used by Mayans as currency. 250 to 900 CE • Classic Maya Civilization Cacao beans were used throughout Mesoamerica as currency, but the artefacts that survive from the golden age of the Maya suggest that the consumption of chocolate was, as for most of its subsequent history, restricted to the society's elite. This literate civilization appears to have once had entire libraries of books, although only four survived the Spanish occupation (the Spanish arrived and decided it was a good idea to burn all the books). In two of those, mention cacao often, as does the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Quiché Maya of Guatemala, which was transcribed into the Spanish alphabet shortly after the Europeans arrived (but does not survive in the original). The tombs of Maya nobility have been found to contain pottery vessels bearing the hieroglyph for cacao and depictions of the process of its preparation. Analysis of the traces of their contents indicates that they probably contained the drink. This evidence doesn't provide a real way to know all the forms in which the Maya consumed chocolate, but it seems to have been most common as a drink. The drink was made by mixing the roasted, ground cacao beans with water, flavouring it with herbs or spices (chilli was common) and then agitating the mixture until foamy by pouring it from one vessel to another. One of the variations might have involved adding honey to chocolate, but the Maya did not commonly sweeten the drink, as we do now almost without exception

What did Mayans use hieroglyphics for?

The Olmec people were some of the first in the Americas to develop a true writing system. The symbols are called "glyphs", not hieroglyphics.

The language has not yet been definitively identified and work on decipherment is consequently ongoing. It is likely that it is syllabic, like Maya script, where each glyph stands for a consonant-vowel or consonant-vowel-consonant group, as in baor bab.

What type of bracelets and necklace the mayans wear?

They used teeth for jewelry and bones for earings,but to have the jewelry made they must sacrifice the person to recieve the teeth bones and other things such as the boobs of a women as a replacment for yak fibers

Was the Aztec civilization founded after the Maya civilization?

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.

Where are the Mayan ruins?

Most Mayan ruins are scattered throughout the territories of present-day southeastern Mexico as well as Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador.

What is the base of the number system the Mayans invented?

The Mayans based on the 20 number system because of 10 fingers and 10 toes. The Mayan number was very useful to the Mayans in the past. Today, they use the modern number system we use today.

How did economy and trade function in olmecs civilization?

Although few accurate economic records exist, there are indications that large Olmec artifacts made their way through a very sophisticated trade route to other parts of Mesoamerica. Artifacts and foods from other parts of Mesoamerica found in Olmec territory is evidence of mass exchange with other parts of Mesoamerica. They did not have a form of currency that neighbors agreed to accept; however, the Olmec were prolific traders and were a thriving civilization.

Which crop was the most important to the Mayas?

Alot beleive its Maize that was important, but it`s not. Maize was important to the Mississippian`s for their diets and it helped protect them form years of drought and bad harvest. Now, for the Mayas, it is indead, corn that was important to them.

CORRECTION: Maize is a type of corn that was important to the Mayans so your answer is somewhat true.

What were considered beautiful features in Mayan people?

They were brown-skinned and very tall. When the boys were baby's, they squished their head between two boards so it resembled a piece of corn for their ancient corn God. When the girls were baby's they hung a bead in front of their eyes so they go cross-eyed because it was considered "beutiful".

Did the mayans believe in gods?

Yes. Their beliefs were a mixture of their personal ideas and the faith that had been handed down from their ancestors. They had a belief of one true God and his messengers.

What was the Aztec calendar stone?

The stone calendar was made by the Aztecs. The calendar represented their beliefs and understanding of space and time. The stone is a representation of the wheel and represents the Aztecs beliefs in the gods.

Who were important people in Mayan history?

the important people to him is montezuma 2

Where does the Mayans pyramids are located?

Today, there millions of Maya living in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico. Many of them still speak a modern-day version of the Mayan language and even more of them still practice the Mayan religion (See Popol Vuh for the text of their "bible"). They are more than just the indigenous peoples of Mexico but, the Federal government there does not treat them well, in my opinion. Their heritage should allow them to be treated as more than the way they're treated as second class citizens. Of course, there were a lot more Maya when they ruled the area; the society as a whole is thought to have diminished when the food supply dwindled and the majority left the major population centers.

How is the way the egyptians used celestial bodies different from the way the mayans use them cite textual evidence in your discussion d them?

The Egyptians primarily used celestial bodies for practical purposes such as agriculture and aligning their monumental architecture, as reflected in texts like the Pyramid Texts, which emphasize the importance of the sun and stars in their religious practices. In contrast, the Mayans had a more complex astronomical system that integrated celestial observations into their calendar and rituals, as seen in the Dresden Codex, which details their sophisticated understanding of planetary movements and eclipses. While both civilizations revered celestial phenomena, the Egyptians focused on their alignment with terrestrial structures, whereas the Mayans integrated them into a broader cosmological and calendrical framework.

Why did the Aztecs and mayans build their calendars?

The aztecs had 3 calendars and when the two smaller ones where fused it became known as the great sun calendar which kept track of the our galaxy going around the black whole similar to the way the planets orbit the sun in our solar system and in that way important celestial events could be accounted for as well as frequent space travel using the aztec calendar to fly into the sun and travel to any other sun in the galaxy the math done by nassim haramein proved this thus proving albert einsteins theory of the rosen bridge ,as well as newly released hyroglyphs realesd by mexico in 2012 greatly support this theory as well

Who came first the Maya or the Aztecs?

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

What was an ancient Mayan codex?

A codex is an old manuscript, in the form of a book, which replaced the scroll between the years 0-300 AD. They were written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth.

Who were the Indian leaders in the Indian wars with the US?

Joseph Brant in the revolutionare war little turtle in the wars between the revolution and the war of 1812 then Tecumish.

How many died in the French and Indian Wars?

How many people died during the French And Indian War?

I think that 16800000 people died during the war.

Around 3000 to 15000 died not 16800000 however wrote that was clearly uneducated.