Who are the Mayans?
As one of the best examples of indigenous Mesoamerican cultures, the Mayans are often credited with being one of the most advanced of all cultures found in the Americas. Credited with being the first culture in the New World to utilize a fully developed written language, as well as being innovators in art, architecture, and the sciences of mathematics and astronomy, the Mayan people were not necessarily known as inventors. Instead, Mayan culture seemed to promote the application of the creations of many of the other cultures in the area and finding ways to improve upon those basic developments. From this perspective, the influence of the Maya can be found in many places around Mexico and other parts of Central America, with artifacts that are decidedly of Mayan origin being found as far away as central Mexico. Geographically, the Mayan city states tended to be formed with a government structure that allowed a great deal of individual governance of the municipalities, rather than some s
The Mayans were Pre-Columbian and Mesoamerican settlers in Central America. Most of them were in Belize;Guatemala;Western Honduras;and the Yucatan Peninsula in Southern Mexico. They established thier own cultures over the years such as our Mathamatics that we use today,our daily calenders for farming,thier own languge,and thier own urban socioty.
The Mayans are a large group of American Indians living mostly in the south of Mexico today. They mostly recently grabbed world attention in 1991 when they were the largest force in the Chiapas Rebellion in Mexico that had a bit of initial success. Most people, though, when referiing to ‘the Mayans” are talking about the Mayans at the height of their culture, 250 ad to 900 ad. They were, in warped archeological terms that I am forced to use here for convenience a “medium’ advanced society. They had a written language (a bitch to write, let me tell you..), a more accurate calender than we use today (no need for leap years, etc), agriculture,etc. They had the wheel but did not use it for transportation, but used it in calenders and childrens toys (lack of any suitable domesticated animals to use with it was perhaps a factor in this). They understood the ‘zero’ well before Europeans are Arabs did. In anycase, their high culture fell to a more basic culture, probably because of warfare. Mu
