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  2. Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Maya civilization (/ ˈ m aɪ ə /) was a Mesoamerican civilization that existed from antiquity to the early modern period. It is known by its ancient temples and glyphs (script). The Maya script is the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in the pre-Columbian Americas .

  3. Maritime trade in the Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    Maritime trade goods of the Maya. The extensive trade networks of the Ancient Maya contributed largely to the success of their civilization spanning three millennia. Maya royal control and the wide distribution of foreign and domestic commodities for both population sustenance and social affluence are hallmarks of the Maya visible throughout much of the iconography found in the archaeological ...

  4. Ancient Maya art - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Maya art comprises the visual arts of the Maya civilization, an eastern and south-eastern Mesoamerican culture made up of a great number of small kingdoms in what is now Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras. Many regional artistic traditions existed side by side, usually coinciding with the changing boundaries of Maya polities.

  5. Trade in Maya civilization - Wikipedia

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    The Maya relied on a strong middle class of skilled and semi-skilled workers and artisans which produced both commodities and specialized goods. [1] Governing this middle class was a smaller class of specially educated merchant governors who would direct regional economies based upon simple supply and demand analysis, and place mass orders for other regions.

  6. List of Maya gods and supernatural beings - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of deities playing a role in the Classic (200–1000 CE), Post-Classic (1000–1539 CE) and Contact Period (1511–1697) of Maya religion.The names are mainly taken from the books of Chilam Balam, Lacandon ethnography, the Madrid Codex, the work of Diego de Landa, and the Popol Vuh.

  7. Belize's 'Blue Hole' can help crack the mystery of ancient Maya

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    The Blue Hole is a massive sinkhole in the Caribbean Sea off the coast of Belize. Very little is known about the collapse of the ancient Mayan civilization but scientists are getting closer to ...

  8. Bonampak - Wikipedia

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    Bonampak. Bonampak (known anciently as Ak'e or, in its immediate area as Usiij Witz, 'Vulture Hill') [1] is an ancient Maya archaeological site in the Mexican state of Chiapas.The site is approximately 30 km (19 mi) south of the larger site of the people Yaxchilan, under which Bonampak was a dependency, and the border with Guatemala.

  9. God's eye - Wikipedia

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    A God's eye (in Spanish, Ojo de Dios) is a spiritual and votive object made by weaving a design out of yarn upon a wooden cross. Often several colors are used. Often several colors are used. They are commonly found in Mexican , Peruvian , and Latin American communities, among both Indigenous and Catholic peoples.