Maya

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 * ==== Dates ====
 * classic period 250-900ad
 * The collapse was around the 8 & 9th centry
 * The postclassic period was from the 10th to the 15th centry
 * Remained independent of the spanish untill the late 17th centry

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 * ====__Location and Geography- __Southern Mexico into northern central America. ====


 * ====__Political- __Strength leading to power :loyalty to king ====
 * Noble class, priests, and leading warriors occupied top rung of maya society.
 * Maya king was top of class structure and when he died his eldest son took over the throne. [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Palenque_temple_of_the_inscriptions.jpg width="210" height="300" caption="File:Palenque temple of the inscriptions.jpg" link="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4b/Palenque_temple_of_the_inscriptions.jpg"]]


 * __Economic- __elieved to of practiced the 'slash-and-burn' agriculture. Then developed more sophisticated methods including planting on raised beds above swamps and on hillside terraces.


 * __Religion- __They believed in many gods. They worshiped their gods in may ways. They prayed, mad offering and also pierced and cut body parts off. Offering blood as "nourishment" for the gods.
 * __Social __
 * Nobel class- top rung in society
 * Priests leading warriors
 * artisains
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">peasants
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">religion shaped social
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">farming lead to social classes
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">king was holy figure


 * __Interactions__
 * Late 800s maya abandoned their cities, invaders from north moved into lands occupied by maya
 * 700s warfare broke out and trade and produced economic hardship disrupted.


 * __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Arts and Sciences- __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Maya also developed the most advanced writing system in the ancient Americas. Consisted of about 800 hieroglyphic symbols. The also made a book call the "Popol Vuh" which was their vesion of how the world was made. They also made the calendar, mathematics and Astronomy. Their Astronomy was dead on.

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