Mayans

The Maya and Olmec both Farmed, they both had 1 ruler, and they both made Calendars.

Honduras was originally inhabited by indigenous tribes, the most powerful of which were the Maya. The western-central part of Honduras was inhabited by the Lenca. These autonomous groups had their conflicts but maintained their commercial relationships with each other and with other populations as distant as Panama andMexico.[1]

On July 30, 1502, Christopher Columbus first saw Honduran soil and he claimed the territory in the name of his sovereigns, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile. He named the area "Honduras" (meaning "depths") for the deep water off the coast. In 1523 the first expeditionary forces arrived under the command of Gil Gonzales de Avila, who hoped to rule the new territory. In 1524, Cristobal de Olid arrived with the same intent on behalf of Hernan Cortes. Olid founded the colony Triunfo de la Cruz and tried to establish an independent government. When Cortes learned of this, he decided to reestablish his own authority by sending a new expedition, headed by Francisco de las Casas. Olid, who managed to capture his rivals, was betrayed by his men and assassinated. Cortes then traveled to Honduras to firmly establish his government in the city of Trujillo before returning to Mexico in 1526. Honduras formed part of the colonial era Captaincy General of Guatemala. The cities ofComayagua and Tegucigalpa developed as early mining centers.[1]

By October 1537, the Lenca chief, Lempira, a warrior of great renown, had managed to unify more than two hundred native tribes in order to offer an organized resistance against penetration by the Spanish conquerors. After a long battle, Governor Montejo gained the Valley of Comayagua, established Comayagua city in another location, and vanquished the indigenous peoples in Tenampua, Guaxeregui, and Ojuera.[1]

Honduras gained independence from Spain in 1821. The country was then briefly annexed to the Mexican Empire. In 1823, Honduras joined the newly formed United Provinces of Central America federation, which collapsed in 1838.[1]

The Olmecs were a people from the tropical south-central lowlands of Mexico and their culture only really thrived from (aproximately) 1200 BCE to 400 BCE, when they slowly died out.

The Aztec empire was officially conquered by the Spanish in 1521.

The Inca civilization ended with the capture and execution of their last ruler in 1572.

The Mayans didn't have a 'political center' to conquer as a means of getting the whole. But the last Mayan states finally surrendered to the Spanish in 1697.

Approximately 7-8 million Mayan peoples, as of 2010, live throughout Guatemala and Belize, as well as in southern Mexico, specifically in the states of Chiapas, Yucatan, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Tabasco.

Mayan is word that refers to the majority of these peoples, like an ethnic label. However this ethnic group is further divided into cultural, ethnic, and linguistic ethnic groups the majority of which have unique proper names, such as K'iche, Jacaltec, Mam, Cakchiquel, Chontal, Tzeltal, Tzotzil. Mayan is not really used as a label of ethnicity because of this ethnic diversity that spans across three nation-states.

There are about 28-32 Mayan languages (the number depends on which linguist you consult). These form the Mayan language family. Mayan is used to refer to the languages just as Latin or Romance is used to refer to the grouping of languages that share a common historical origin. However, just because Italian and French are Romance languages, we dont say that someone speaks Romance or Latin; she or he speaks Italian or French or some other language. All of the languages in the Mayan family similarly have their own proper name correspond to the ethnic labels noted above. Only one of these languages which is called Maya (without an "n"); this is the Mayan language that is spoken in Yucatan peninsula.

The idea that "There are no more Mayans living today" is a false idea creating through European colonialism and colonization of the Americas. Military conquest destroyed the cities of the peoples that lived in the Americas and converted these to abandoned ruins or were buried under new colonial cities.

As part of the political domination of Indian groups, Europeans (British, French, Spaniards, and Portuguese) spread the idea that these cities created by people who were no longer living or alive. This was a way to break the political will and historical memory of once having been an independent culture, society, and political state.

The idea -- that there are no Mayans living today -- is completely false and wrong. This erroneous misconception is promoted by many educational films, documentary films, archaeology films, and the tourism industry under the idea of "Mystery" -- that the Maya are a mysterious culture and civilization.

In actuality, the Mayans by definition ONLY live "today"!!! That is, they are the descendents living "today" in the contemporary period following the end of colonialism (1821). They are the descendents of the Maya, which is the name of the given to the groups of people that lived BEFORE the European colonization of the Americas! Maya (used both for singular and plural) are the people known as the creators of the precolumbian Maya civilization.

We do not actually know the name of the ethnic-linguistic and cultural groups that they themselves used to refer to themselves and their neighbors. Thus, precolumbian Maya got their name from the Maya who live in Yucatan peninsula who the Spaniards encountered in 1517.

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The Mayans did not predict 9-11 any more than Nostradamus did, and in fact much less so. Neither have they predicted the end of the world in 2012; their calendar happens to be ticking over in that year, and the hype asociated with this is just a replication of the 'Y2K bug'.

The Incan Empire covered parts of Ecuador, Peru, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and north-central Chile, and southern Colombia.

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The Inca kingdom was in South America between Chile and Ecuador, they were the indians.

These were placed of the faces of Egyptian mummies, particularly those of pharaohs.

One reason is that due to the fact that they were so intelligent they made their temples and pyramids so astronomically great. If you look at one of their temples it has for sides, and on each side their is 91 steps.

91 times 4 (sides) = 364

and when you add in the top step

364+1= 365

it equals the solar calenders days, as there is 365 days in most years.

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

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.

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

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

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

To decorate with: gold, semi precious stones, stone

To eat: Fruit, corn, potato

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.

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

they accomplished several activities

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!

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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."

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.

Mayan temples and pyramids were made from limestone.

Australia's interior is called the Outback.

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.