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    What Was The Mayan Empire

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    The Mayan Empire best known for its calendar system‚ advanced writing and math‚ insane pyramids‚ excellent stone and jade tools‚ gender equality‚ great road systems‚ and dedication to religion. Met its end after more than 3‚000 years. Archaeologist show through studies that the ending of this empire was caused by a uniformed/unstable government‚ droughts‚ deforestation‚ debates‚ diseases‚ decreased trust in leaders‚ and abandonment of cities. The Mayan empire started in 2000 B.C.E. originating in

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    west by Christopher Columbus (Boyd). Indians thought that a tiny demon lived in every kernel of popcorn (Wonderopolis). When the demon’s house or the kernel was heated he would get mad and explode. Popcorn has been part of cultures for centuries. Aztec

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    hysteria causes a major uproar in the human population. As it was situated in 2012 when it was proclaimed‚ due to the Mayan calendar‚ that the world was going to finalize for the the living people. As it was expected‚ many people panicked and the whole society transformed into a riotous society. It lead to people attempting sucide‚ creating the 2012 film‚ and lastly the resolution‚ the Mayan calendar. First‚ the mass hysteria was the catalyst to people attempting suicide. People‚ along with their reasonable

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    Assignment 1 Michael McCue HUM111 World Cultures I Dr. Andrew N Allphin 16 October 2012 •No one can say for certain what happened to the Mayan people‚ but theories abound and include varied possible alternatives to explain the abrupt and mysterious disappearance of the Mayan civilization. Many historians have questioned “how” or “why” the Mayan civilization disappeared after the 10th century; however there is no definitive answer to this question. One possible theory is the Mayan’s

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    Mayan culture gender means that women were to work in their homes mostly providing food and clothes for their family. If necessary they were allowed to come and help bring in the harvest. Women were not allowed to hunt‚ only able to clean and serve the food‚ such as deer. Women weren’t allowed to hunt deer only men did that. So after the women cleaned and prepared the food the men would eat first and the women would wait until the men finished to have their women only dinner. Gender as a whole relates

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    The connection between the ritual sacrifice and the ballgame is evident in the Mayan language. According to Stern‚ the Mayan translation for the word ball‚ quiq‚ means sap or blood (35). The sap which flows out of the tree can be seen as the implication of the ritual sacrifice of the ballgame. The notion that the ball‚ of the ballgame‚ is round can be symbolized and interpreted as the human head. Which implies that death is important for the completion of the ritual. The act of human sacrifice

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    Recent studies have also shown that severe droughts could be the reason for the downfall of the Mayan civilization. In a study conducted by Dr. David Hodell and Dr. Jason Curtis‚ geologists at the University of Florida‚ evidence of a serious drought during the time when the Mayans began to fall was found. By analyzing sediments beneath Lake Chichancanab on the Yucatan Peninsula‚ they were able to call it “"the first unambiguous evidence" for a period of extreme aridity between the years 800 and 1000”(World

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    What Happened to the Mayan Civilization? The Mayan civilization was a thriving culture that occupied a large portion of Mesoamerica and suddenly disappeared around 900 AD. (Sayre‚ 2011‚ p. 391) Although researchers cannot find a definite answer explaining what happened to the Mayans‚ they have theories. One theory suggests mass exodus of the population due to draught‚ and another focuses on aliens. (Maya Culture Collapse: Current Theory‚ 2012; Ancient Aliens‚ The Mayan Conspiracy S04E01‚ 2012)

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    for its agriculture‚ pottery‚ hieroglyph writing‚ calendar-making and mathematics‚ and left behind a surprising amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Geographically‚ the Mayan civilization covered what are now Belize‚ Guatemala‚ Honduras‚ El Salvador‚ and part of Mexico. The center of the Mayan empire which was located in Guatemala reached its peak of power and influence in the sixth century. In The earliest Maya settlements date to around 1800 B.C. or the beginning of what is

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    impressive mathematical‚ architectural‚ engineering‚ and calendrical advances. Mayan Civilization centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala‚ reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D. This MesoAmerican group made the‚ Mayan calendar. This calendar are based upon a system which had been in common use throughout the region. This takes it back all the way to the 5th century. The Mayan calendar

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