the mayans
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THE MAYANS
Geography and the Early Maya
Maya were located in Mesoamerica-central Mexico to N. Central America
-Started around 1000 B.C.
Picture from flickr.com by user Urban Sea Star
Geography and the Early Maya
-Lived in the rain forest they farmed and Hunted
-Beans, Squash, Avocados, and Maize-Hunted deer, rabbits, and monkeys-Lived in small villages and traded with others
This picture is from flickr.com by user IITA Image Library.
The Classic Age
From AD 250-900-40 Large cities with own governments
and kings Cities were linked through trade
-Lowlands grew crops and traded cotton and cacao
-Highlands traded jade and obsidianobsidian picture from flickr.com from user elevenamx
Cacao picture from flickr.com from user Christine4nier
The Classic Age
Maya cities in Classic Age-Large stone temples and pyramids-Built large palaces-Plaza’s for gathering and meetings
around main temple
The Classic Age
-Stone ball court-ball through ring no hands or feet could be used
-winners received jewels and clothing- losers were killed
Picture from flickr.com from user exfordy
Maya Culture
2 main forces drove Maya culture- social structure and religion
2 classes in Maya society-were not divided equally
Upper class had the King, priests, merchants, and warriors
Maya Culture
The main gathering place for Maya society was around the largest temple, where priests would perform religious ceremonies. This picture is of El Castillo at Chichen Itza.
This picture from flickr.com from user f-l-e-x.
Maya Culture
Maya King-had religious and political authority
-related to the gods Priests, merchants, and warriors
-rest of the power with the king-priests led all religious ceremonies
Maya Culture
The Kings House at Tulum.
Maya Culture
Lower class- most of the Maya-Completed all of the labor and provided
food-women cared for children, cooked,
and made clothes-men would farm, hunt, and make
tools-Lower class had to pay for upper class
-food, clothing, salt-build buildings-serve in Army
Maya Culture
Religion of the Maya-worshipped many gods
-all for different purposes-Gods could help or hurt you-give blood to Gods (everyone did this)
Maya Culture
Achievements of the Maya-Accurate calendars
-365 day calendar for farming-260 day calendar for religious
events-Great at Math
-Used the number 0-Writing system to record history
-Art work with jade and gold
Maya Culture
This is the Maya observatory at Tulum, where the priests study the night sky and made calendars.
The Decline of the Maya
Collapse around 900 AD-Maya left their cities
4 reasons why they may have left-To much work for the lower class
-rebel against the king-Warfare between cities
-killed to many people-could not produce enough crops
-weakened the soil-climate change
-droughts (not enough rain)
The Decline of the Maya
There are people of Maya descendancy alive today in Mexico and the northern part of Central America.
This picture from flickr.com from user mystuart.
References
All information comes from: Salter, Christopher. The Americas. Austin,
Texas: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2009. Print
All pictures are cited from flickr.com and the ones not cited were from when I visited a Maya ruin.
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