Maya

By mschall24
  • 2660 BCE

    Relgion

    The Maya religion involved several aspects of nature, astronomy and rituals. Most Gods represented a form in nature, for example, Sun God, Kinih Ahous, or Maize God, Yum Kaax. The Mayans were known for their calendars and astronomical buildings. These were used during their religious rituals.
  • 2660 BCE

    Relgion

    The modern day Maya still live within the boundaries of their old empire in Central America. The region that makes up this area now consists of the countries of Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and five states in Mexico.
  • 2600 BCE

    Population

    The Maya had a population estimated at more than six million people. The Maya peoples lived in Guatemala, and they made up about 40 percent of the population.The Maya were one of the largest indigenous groups of the Americans.
  • 1000 BCE

    dying out

    One by one, the Classic cities in the southern lowlands were abandoned, and by A.D. 900, Maya civilization in that region had collapsed. The reason for this mysterious decline is unknown, though scholars have developed several competing theories.
  • 900 BCE

    The Maya

    The Maya started abound the middle to the beginning of the 900 century to the end of the 900 century.Through the end of the civilization were the wars and the battles and then the maya civilization had ended.
  • 900 BCE

    How long they lasted

    The Maya have a history that no one has fully figured out. The Maya lasted more than 2,000 years, but the period from 300 to 900 most people know it as the classic period. During that time the Maya developed a complex understanding of astronomy.
  • 610 BCE

    Tools

    The Olmec created a solar calendar. The Maya, using their knowledge of building on the Olmec solar calendar, created the most accurate calendar in the ancient world. Both the Olmec and the Maya invented many things, but they never used the wheel, and they never made metal weapons or tools.
  • 600 BCE

    Academics

    The Maya is a Mesoamerican clicilication the were known for the Maya Script the only known fully developed writing system of Pre-Columbian Americans. There also known for the Art, Architecture and the mathematical and the Astronomical systems.
  • 500 BCE

    Civililization

    Maya cities were surrounded and supported by a large population of farmers.They were thought to serve as mediators between the gods and people on earth, and performed the elaborate religious ceremonies and rituals so important to the Mayan culture.
  • 300 BCE

    Trading

    The Maya used and traded all around the empire, they traded salt, cotton ,quetzal feathers,flint, chert, obsidian.,colored shells, honey, cacao, copper tools. They all were used like money.