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The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D.
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The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making and mathematics,
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and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork.
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Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were abandoned by A.D. 900, however, and since the 19th century scholars have debated what might have caused this dramatic decline.
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Locating the Maya
The Maya civilization was one of the most dominant indigenous societies of Mesoamerica (a term used to describe Mexico and Central America before the 16th century Spanish conquest).
The Maya civilization was one of the most dominant indigenous societies of Mesoamerica (a term used to describe Mexico and Central America before the 16th century Spanish conquest).
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Unlike other scattered indigenous populations of Mesoamerica, the Maya were centered in one geographical block covering all of the Yucatan Peninsula and modern-day Guatemala;
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Belize and parts of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas; and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador.
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This concentration showed that the Maya remained relatively secure from invasion by other Mesoamerican peoples.
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This concentration showed that the Maya remained relatively secure from invasion by other Mesoamerican peoples.
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Within that expanse, the Maya lived in three separate sub-areas with distinct environmental and cultural differences:
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the northern Maya lowlands on the Yucatan Peninsula; the southern lowlands in the Peten district of northern Guatemala and adjacent portions of Mexico,
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Belize and western Honduras; and the southern Maya highlands, in the mountainous region of southern Guatemala.
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Most famously, the Maya of the southern lowland region reached their peak during the Classic Period of Maya civilization (A.D. 250 to 900),
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and built the great stone cities and monuments that have fascinated explorers and scholars of the region.
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Early Maya, 1800 B.C. to A.D. 250
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The earliest Maya settlements date to around 1800 B.C., or the beginning of what is called the Preclassic or Formative Period...........
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. The earliest Maya were agricultural, growing crops such as corn (maize), beans, squash and cassava (manioc).
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During the Middle Preclassic Period, which lasted until about 300 B.C., Maya farmers began to expand their presence both in the highland and lowland regions.
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The Middle Preclassic Period also saw the rise of the first major Mesoamerican civilization, the Olmecs. Like other
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Mesamerican peoples, such as the Zapotec, Totonac, Teotihuacán and Aztec, the Maya derived a number of religious and cultural traits–as well as their number system and their famous calendar–from the Olmec.
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In addition to agriculture, the Preclassic Maya also displayed more advanced cultural traits like pyramid-building,
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city construction and the inscribing of stone monuments.
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The Late Preclassic city of Mirador, in the northern Peten, was one of the greatest cities ever built in the pre-Columbian Americas.
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Its size dwarfed the Classic Maya capital of Tikal, and its existence proves that the Maya flourished centuries before the Classic Period.
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