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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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Who were the enemies of the Mayans?

The Incas and the Aztecs had large cultures in the Americas.

Which civilization is older the Aztec or the Egyptian?

The Ancient Egyptians are significantly older than the Aztecs; their civilisation began well over five thousand years ago, first becoming recognisable around 3000 B.C, while the Aztec Empire originated in the early 1400s A.D.

You may be thinking of the Mayans (a lot of people confuse the various civilisations of South America for some reason), who are still a thousand years the Egyptians' junior, coming into being around 2000 B.C.

Do Aztecs and Mayan have the same religion?

Kinda,you should study the Mayans and Egyptians.They do have a lot of stuff in common though.

The Mayans developed what?

they created a writing system, forms of maths, and astromomy

What are the Mayans natural resources?

To build with: Grass, mud, stone, plant fibers

To decorate with: gold, semi precious stones, stone

To eat: Fruit, corn, potato

What were the Mayans weapons?

bow and arrow knife's spears an atlatl for throwing the spears clubs and sickles curved blades for cutting grass but were also used for battle.

Where does the Mayan number system come from?

the Mayan number system is called the Hieroglyphics, they thought that zero counted as a number, so they put that zero into the counting system...

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Where were the ruins of Mayan cities found?

the Mayan civilization was located throughout the Mexican cities of Chinapas, Tabasco, and the Yuctan Peninsula

How did the Mayans predicte things?

To be honest they thought that the world was flat, and the sky was held up by four trees in the corners...AND that the world floated on a giant crocodile in a pond of lillies...and people believe their predictions?! What are they on about, just because some people say it, it does not mean it is true, i would not get so worked up about it, we have great scientists, and they say nothing, so do not believe what the Mayans say...as it is obviously rubbish!

Many thanks :o)

What is the Mayan lower class and upper class?

The Mayan lower classes are the farmers and the slaves.While the upper classes consists of the king,then the priest,there are two others that I don't know.


The Mayan upper class are the kings,which hold the highest position in society.Then there are the priests and the warriors and merchants were part of the upper class.The lower class held the farmers and slaves.

What are Mayan hieroglyphs?

Mayan script was initially called "hieroglyphics" by 18th Century Europeans, because of it's similarity to Egyptian writing, and the system is similar to Egyptian writing, but term "hieroglyphics" is usually reserved for Egyptian writing. Mayan script is more often called "Mayan glyphs."

What were the mayans very skilled at?

Two things that the Mayans are famous for are their engineering and scientific achievements. This ancient civilization, which inhabited parts of present-day Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize, designed and built elaborate temples and pyramid that are still standing. They also had a great understanding of astronomy, mathematics, and calendar-making. They also had a written language.

What was the Mayan way of farming?

1. According to legend, the Aztec god of war told them to build their capital where they saw "an eagle perched on a cactus and holding a snake in its beak." This image forms part of what modern nation's flag today? (1 point)

  • (0 pts) Colombia
  • (1 pt) Mexico
  • (0 pts) Panama
  • (0 pts) Peru
1 /1 point 2. The Olmec were known for their huge carved stone (1 point)
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  • (0 pts) boats.
  • (0 pts) houses.
  • (1 pt) heads.
1 /1 point 3. What farming technique did Mayan farmers use that allowed them to convert ash to fertilizer? (1 point)
  • (1 pt) slash-and-burn agriculture
  • (0 pts) fire farming
  • (0 pts) ash agriculture
  • (0 pts) floating farms
1 /1 point 4.

The Mayas developed a system of writing using(1 point)

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    365 characters.

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    hieroglyphics.

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    the same letters we use.

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    stone pens.

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The final score is 4/4 (100%).

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What were the Mayan buildings made out of?

Mayan temples and pyramids were made from limestone.

What did the Mayan temples look like?

Much like the indigenous people of rural Quintana Roo, Mexico. They have short stocky bodies, broad faces with high cheekbones, thick shiny straight black hair, dark eyes and darker tanned skin. Many of these people I have talked consider themselves Mayans.

How did the Mayan people travel?

The Mayans didn't use beasts of burden like most civilizations. So for transport within their community they carried things by themselves. It is known that the Mayans had the technology of the wheel, as some Mayan children's toys found have wheels.

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What are the uses of the Mayan pyramid?

They had two different types of pyramids. One was for climbing, and the other was sacred, and they weren't supposed to touch it. They mostly used their pyramids for sacrificing and rituals. A priest would climb up on top of it because he was closer to got while up their.

What duties did the Mayan slaves have?

If you didn't know around that time, slavery was common. Mainly the Spanish and Portuguese had an influence open the land. The Spanish were more over concerned with silver for trading in Asia, the Portuguese wanted wealth and obtained it through cash crops, sugar was a main cash crop that made them wealthy because before then only china were the suppliers of this rare item. It was sold to the ones that could afford it (elite & wealthy.) Anyway Mayan Slaves were used to dig into these boroughs; mine for silver. Conditions were so bad before. Many of them died because of their exposure to disease. At one point the population was in the millions about a couple of years later after the settlement of Spanish colonies, the population was a few mere thousands. They often lived for 7 years working in these mines. Those who died were replaced, and in the long run, the Spanish decided that Africans would do the job better and live longer because they were exposed to the diseases before and they soon adapted to them. Mayans were civilized in a way that was more complex then other societies due to a couple of discoveries they were killed and hardly survived from their fate.

What was the name of the Mayan religion?

Mayan people believed in many gods which was called "Polytheism."

Mayan religion was characterized by the worship of nature gods, especially the gods of sun, rain and corn, the importance of astronomy and astrology, and the building of elaborate pyramidical temples, to get closer to the gods and from the top of which took place rituals of human sacrifice.

What caused the decline and eventual disappearance of Mayan civilization?

no one really knows, the answer is still unknown...but some possible reason are famines, natural disasters,ect.

xyco_fryx: Mayan are descendant of an ancient race of probably Lemurians ( as you can our dated history is only five thousand years ago, but others say it pre-dated back 30 thousand years ago). As you can see Lemurian were believe to travel by teleportation a long lost technology using only thr mind or psyche. I you can remember Enoch on the bible (Old Testament that Enoch did not die because he ascended to what you call heaven (other esoteric figure call it another plane of existance)). Mayans are not barbarian as other book says in fact they are more technologically advance than you think same through as the Egyptians. Actually the cold about life is you must ascend first before you die or you will repeat another cycle of life in this earth.

The Mayan civilization for one, has not dissapeared it is still alive and well, the temples were abandoned but the language the culture and the people are still alive and well thank you very mcuh, who knows if the USA can say the same in one hundred years, I doubt it very much

Was the Mayan warlike and aggressive?

No. Both civilizations were anachronistic to each other: Mayan Civilization rose at 250 AD; their civilization collapsed by unknown reasons, most probably due to ecologic catastrophe, near 900 AD. After that, most Mayan cities were abandoned. By 1200 AD most Mayan lands became nation-state cities, isolated from the rest of the Mesoamerican world.

Aztecs founded their first city in 1325 AD and became the most successful civilization in the Americas, until contact with Europeans in 1519.

What did the Mayas do for living?

Maya Angelou is an famous poet, civil rights activist, and a actress but she is mostly a famous poet by the book's" I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing "and "All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes"