Maya empire By: Iker Plaza
The maya empire was originate in Yucatan.
They were the most advanteage persons living in central América.
Mayas were noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools.
They made offerings to gods to have a good yeras and
good crops.
The history of
the mayas is divided in 3 periods: the Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic periods.These were preceded
by the Archaic Period. And the final one was the Contact Period.
Preclassic
Period (c. 2000 BC – 250 AD)
The first civilization was developed, staments were established,
they cultivate crops of maize, beans, squash,
and chili pepper.
Classic period (c. 250–900 AD)
The Classic period is largely defined as the period during which the
lowland Maya raised dated monuments using the Long Count calendar. In this
period, Mayas start to built very big buldings used for sacrificing people or,
to left there the dead bodies.
In the Early Classic, cities
throughout the Maya region were influenced by the great metropolis of
Teotihuacan in the Valley of Mexico.
When people left the most important
cities of the classic period, only a minority keep its culture and live in the
Posclassic Period.
The activity centre was moved to the
North and to the highest part of the territory.
The Spanish conquered
In the year 1511, one carebel stops in the Caribean Islands
and a lot of Spanish sailors stablished a camp in Maya territory. They were
captured and the mayority was sacrificed but the other ones escape. Between the
years 1517 and 1519 three independent Spanish expeditions explore the coast of
Yucatan. In the year 1697 Martín de Urzúa defeact the maya empire
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