Mayans

The Yucatan Peninsula, located on southeastern Mexico, is a triangular peninsula that separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea. With a tropical savanna climate (Köppen Aw), it is mostly a flat land composed of limestone. Due to this nature, there are almost no surface rivers in the peninsula and most water comes from holes in the ground known as cenotes. It is a place known for being home of the ancient Mayan civilization, with beautifull remains of cities such as Chichen Itza and Tulum; however many of these ruins are covered by the thick vegetation that characterizes the region. It is also believed that the Chicxulub crater, covering almost half of the peninsula, is the site of the crater impact that killed the dinosaurs some 65 million years ago. There are three federal states on this peninsula: Campeche (capital: Campeche), Yucatan (capital Merida) and Quintana Roo (capital Chetumal). Some of the most important cities include Campeche (791,322), Merida (734,153) and Cancun (526,701).

The Mayan economy was based on farming and craftsmen. Their food supply was based on maize. It appears that Mayans in central cities controlled the farming economy of the lowland peasant population.

Yes, the Mayas are considered the first to irrigate their crops

Mayans emerged somewhere in the late pre classic period (250 BCE- 250 CE) and reached their peak in the southern lowlands of Guatemala during the Classic period (250-900 ce), and shifted to northern Yucatán during the Postclassic period (900-1521 ce). Not sure of when they died out completely.

Geography affected the Mayan people by changing the types of food that they were able to grow and by offering stone that allowed them to build their pyramids. Geography also caused massive flooding and damage to the Mayan culture.

They could have gotten there:
1) by foot, crossing the ice north of the Bering Strait. You can do that even a thousand miles south of the North Pole, at about 73 degrees North.
2) by boat, whether across the Bering Strait (it's only 51 miles), or across the Aleutian archipelago (there are 71 islands to help), or elsewhere. Even crossing the Atlantic is not impossible (as demonstrated by Columbus and others); nor is it impossible to cross the Pacific (look up Thor Heyerdahl).

There are a number of ways in which religion affected the Mayan people. These people used religion a guideline to how to run their lives.

The Inca ("Inka") empire at its height controlled a great portion of the western coast of South America. What is today: Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina.
The Inca Indians originated in the country of Peru.

my theory- when Cortez conquered the Aztecs he must of conquered the Mayans to since they were both in Mexico

The Mayan symbol for number five is a horizontal bar.

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Aztec society was divided into three well defined castes. On top were the Pilli. These were people noble by birth, including all descendants of previous reigning rulers by legitimate wives. Below this class was the largest, the Macehual. This included warriors, merchants, craftsmen and farmers among several other types. The third class were the "serfs" called Mayeques. These people were often assigned to work on farms and also to hold minor political offices.

they used a technique called slash and burn (or milpa), and what they did was cutting the foliage and then burning it before the summer rain. After that they plant the seed in deep holes.

they used crop rotation.

Civilizations are not destroyed. They are not objects that can be destroyed; by the same token, water for example cannot be crushed or broken, nor can it convert into something like metal or a wood. Similarly it is not appropriate to think that a civilization (whether Maya, Roman, Western, Chinese or whoever's) can be destroyed. It just does not happen that way.

A civilization consists of many different attributes such as a political system, societies and communities, cultural values and forms of cultural activity, for example. And so, different kinds of changes happened to these different aspects or dimensions of Maya civilization.

The question "what destroyed Maya civilization" is probably referring to what archaeologists and historians refer to as the Collapse of Maya Civilization or the Classic Maya Collapse. This concept refers to the transformations in politics, economy, culture, and social organization that occured to Maya societies around the period of 900 AD to 1000 AD.

There are a number of different theories about how this widespread systematic transformation happened. Some of the best theories today include a multifactorial explanation -- that is an explanation that uses many factors to explain the "collapse" of the political and economic system of that period. Some factors are ecological degradation and climatological stress leading to agricultural crises, increased war between independent Maya political states, disruption of trade, and changes in the values that had supported kingship (rule by divine kings).

There was something of a demographic crisis and migration that lead to the depopulation of a number of Maya cities; some were completely abandoned.

The Maya peoples were organized into multiple sociocultural and linguistic groups or ethnic groups. But they continued to live and Maya civilization was therefore not "destroyed", just transformed.

P.s. 'Mayan' is an adjective that is only correctly used to refer to the Mayan languages that comprise the Mayan language family (there are about 28 or 32 depending on which linguistic authority you like best).

The Maya Classic Age, which lasted from 250 to 900, there were as many as 40 Maya cities with 5,000 to 50,000 inhabitants each. the cities has stone pyramids, temples, palaces, and plazas for public gatherings. Canals controlled the flow of water. Mayans developed systems of astronomy and mathematics to aid in their religious practices. by 900, for uncertain reasons the Maya civilization declined. the Maya were one of the great ancient civilization of the western hemisphere today their descendants in Honduras, Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala still speak variants of the Maya language The Maya Classic Age, which lasted from 250 to 900, there were as many as 40 Maya cities with 5,000 to 50,000 inhabitants each. the cities has stone pyramids, temples, palaces, and plazas for public gatherings. Canals controlled the flow of water. Mayans developed systems of astronomy and mathematics to aid in their religious practices. by 900, for uncertain reasons the Maya civilization declined. the Maya were one of the great ancient civilization of the western hemisphere today their descendants in Honduras, Belize, Mexico, and Guatemala still speak variants of the Maya language

The yearly calendar begins JANUARY 1 but the liturgical calendar begins on the first Sunday of Advent

No! They are not they hunt animals not people

That is a preposterous theory.

they meet needs of people like.. they needed people for war when they fight with other country many people died so they needed people to have victory and save their country so... i thick this is my answer

Reshaped their environments to develop complex agriculture and urban centers

eastern and southern Mexico

The simplified definition of Indian Lore is Indian teachings. Indian teachings such as- Stories told by Indian tribes, ways to hunt, ect. There is also a merit badge in Boy Scouts called Indian Lore.

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