Mayans

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Every civilization made their own language. The Mayans were no different. Language is a natural part of human culture.

the Mayans communicated by carving in a still wet paved circle on a cement wall and each day people would look at that wheel to see if they had any mail very similar to modern day chatting.

they live in hotdogs with extra mustard

kisin (cizin) "stinking one" god of earthquakes and death

Those Maya that lived and farmed in the highlands of Guatemala and Southern Mexico were well-off, but probably not wealthy. Things have not changed that much in the last 500-800 years. The occasional earthquake or disease that struck brought (and continues to bring) poverty, but most Maya peoples continue to be well-off, but not wealthy. those that have left their ancestral gods for the God of the Bible are happier, but again, are not necessarily either wealthy or poor, but well off, as were their ancesters.

Dr. Felipe Blycker J.

Seminario Biblico de Rio Grande

Edinburg, TX 78539

i searceh this question, and they were animistic....study of animals...

Most of the answers to this question have to do with the 2012 Mayan precdiction of the end of the world. There are many, many, many other predictions that take time to find out, but here are a few of the main predictions: December 21 2012 marks the end of the world, ending it with major catastrophes such a earthquakes (among the many) There are going to be floods, bringing the end of the "word of God" for 10 consecutive years A magnetic field shift will happen to the Earth, causing a reverse polarity of the planet The Earth will collide with an asteroid or a comet

The men had great authority over their families but they had a lot of duties.

yes

kings but no queens
Unlike other "Indian" cultures, they had several kings who each reigned over everyone in a particular area.

They are remembered for many reason, almost too many to explain. One of the most obvious is the Mayan Calendar. The Mayan Calendar consists of three "rounds" the the biggest round that is in the outside is the Solar Round; this round has 365 symbols corresponding to the 365 days in a year (hence the 'Solar round') The other two rounds rotate around the out side or the Solar Round and are called the Sacred Rounds. The inner round haws 13 symbols as the Mayans believed that the celestial realm had 13 layers, and the outer sacred round had 20 symbols as the Mayans believed that there were 20 months in a year. The Mayans however didn't use the 4 positions we use to signify a year( e.g. 1996 = one thousand. nine hundred. ninety. six. or 1. 9. 9. 6.) the Mayans used a modified 'base 20' arithmetical system called the Long Count Calendar and used 5 positions. (e.g. 2012= 13.0.0.0.0) One other reason the Mayan Calendar is so special, is the fact that it takes 52 years for the Mayan Calendar to match the same symbols again.

Another thing the Mayans are remembered for is the Meso-American game called Pok-ta-Pok. This game demonstrates strength and creativity. The game was played by mainly men, but woman and even children were known to play. The game can be played one on one or with two teams of 11 players. It is played in a 'Arena' that is shaped like a rectangle. at both ends of the arena there was a ring suspended from the wall. The aim of the game was to get the ball; this ball was made of solid rubber from the native trees and weighted up to ten pounds, through the rings, however you could only use your hips( players wore thick belts to protect their hips from the ball) feet and shoulders. It is said on special occasions that the winning team would be sacrificed in honor of the Gods, as the Gods could only have the Best, and the losing team had the dishonor of not being sacrificed.

The Mayans were also remembered for their architecture; take for example one of their temples. It consists of four sides, each side had 91 steps and at the top there is an extra step. This is special due to the fact that

91 (times) X 4= 364

and 364 (plus)+ the 1 extra step is 365

which is also the number of days in a year.

they were the commaders of the battle

by the astecas

Complex calenders with incredible accuracy

It comes from Orlando Patterson's monograph "Slavery and Social Death." Patterson tried to define exactly what slavery is and to distinguish it from other forms of forced labor or unequal status (for example, labor can also be coerced from children and wives who were not, historically, viewed as equal in status to men but neither are they slaves). Patterson looked at a number of different slave regimes around the world and throughout history and tried to find what elements they had in common. I don't recall all elements of his definition, but the key element was that slaves were considered "socially dead." Slavery was, at it's origins, a substitute for literal death and a kind of fictional death (IIRC Patterson even located some rituals of enslavement which involved someone being symbolically killed). They are NOT considered fully formed people and are NOT members of society. This definition is useful because it applies to all things which we recognize as slavery as well leaving out other unequal statuses which are not slavery. For example, for most of human history a wife was considered as subordinate to her husband. But a wife is a person and is a member of society. Similarly, an indentured servant may be of low status and may work at the exact same jobs as a slave (in 17th century British North America they often worked side by side) but they are considered people and are considered members of society. On the other side of this the idea of social death also allows us to link slaves who face very disparate types of treatment. American slaves, who were particularly low status, are considered socially dead as are Turkish Janisarries, who sometimes controlled the empire, and high status slaves like the Chinese mariner Zheng He.

mayas

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Tropicla and humid with lots of rainfall

The other calendar was the 365 day solar calendar.

They used set up markets and tents to trade cotton and stuff

yes it was their most common type of writing

yes