Mayan Influence On The Mayans

The Maya were a great Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya people. They had great architecture, beautiful artwork, and high sciences. The areas it encompased were Southern Mexico, the Yucatan Peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, Northern Honduras, and El Salvador. The Classic period is generally defined as when the Maya were erecting sculpted statues with Long Count dates, a non-repeating vigesimal and base-18 calendar. The Classic shifted and “collapsed”, and the Postclassic was born. The Postclassic saw the rise of Chichen Itza, and other smaller cities along the coast.
The Classic Maya Civilization lasted from 200-900 AD. The Classic Maya had ruling inland cities, including Tikal and Guatemala in the West, Palenque in the North, Copan and Honduras in the East, and Calakmul in the South. These cities were very large with populations of over 100,000. They had highly organized city centers, and built pyramids, stone buildings, plazas, and ballcourts. The Classic Mayan political landscape was highly complex and has been likened to that of Renaissance Italy and Classical Greece. During the early Classic, the cities were influenced by Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico. A Classic period Maya community was a small
The people who lived in the Classic Maya cities spread across the land into smaller cities. These new cities were largely centered around permanent water sources. These cities, such as Chichen Itza, had smaller populations of 25,000. The Postclassic had a new political system of a council instead of a king or queen. They did not have the stelae. The Postclassic had a new network of trade along the coast and across the sea, instead of along rivers like the Classic. The smaller villages of the Classic stayed the same. During the Late Postclassic, the Yucatan Peninsula was divided into a number of independent provinces that shared a common culture but varied in their internal sociopolitical