I need Help about the maya's?

Question

Well my Geo class is doing something about.. maya's and we are doing a paper over this.. and.. could some people help me on this???
Q1.What was the climate like? Rainfall and Temp.
Q2.What were some of the local fauna (animals) and Flora ( flowers)
Q3.what were the major cities of this culture?


ok thank you!

Answer 1

1) Climate - if you go to Mexico and travel inland to the jungles where Mayan ruins from the late Toltec period remain, wear loose clothing. How the ancients built pyramids under these conditions is a miracle. For actual data, I suggest you follow the link(s) I've provided below

2) Ancient Mayans worshipped the Jaguar, a jungle cat. All flora and fauna in the most prevalent Mayan areas are indigenous to the jungle. Take a closer look at those flora and fauna typcial to Mexico and Central America for your homework assignment.

3) Major Cities:

1. Chichén Itza in Mexico's Yucatán has the famous huge pyramid of the sun. On the MayaPage I've linked to some spring '95 Eqinox ceremony photos that show a special relationship of the pyramid's geometry with light and shadows on that day of the year. Chichén Itza became the capital of the Yucatán Maya after the end of the Classic period. They organized a trading empire (1000-1521) that stretched from the Gulf Coast to Honduras.

2. Palenque stands at the foothills of the Chiapas highlands. It was built as a portal to the underworld in the 8th century, where Maya kings might defeat the Lord Death and return in dreams and visions. In the observatory tower at the center of Palenque palace, small portals were aligned to enable the sighting of Venus throughout the year at its first appearance on the horizon. This was the signal to begin war.

3. Yaxchilán, 4. Bonampak, 9. Tikal, 10. Uaxactun and 11. Copan were lowland or valley cities, abandoned for unknown reasons with the fall of classic Mayan civilization, around 1,000 A.D. These cities were overgrown with rain forest jungle. Lavish murals were found at Bonampak. Southeast of Bonampak is the Lacandon jungle, misnamed by the Spaniards after the name of a lake in it, where, on an island, the last unconquered Maya (Chol and Tzeltal) held out, refusing surrender and refusing Christianity. The Lacandon jungle area is the site of Mayan controversy today with the Mexican government, it remains the last rain forest in Mexico, but is being logged at a rapid rate.

12. Cuello is the oldest excavated Mayan settlement, dating from 2500 B.C. Belize sponsored the summer excavation of a early Mayan rock cave site near an area close to Cuello, threatened with development. Journals of dig participants are on-line..

13. Tulúm was a seacoast fortress and port city for the vast trading empire the Maya established, perhaps allied with the Olmec civilization to the north. At Tulúm, a small temple arch just frames the rising sun at Winter solstice, when the viewer is seated in a stone throne built into the wall surrounding Tulúm. In the Mimi II curriculum, (link at end of page) Tulúm is where the smugglers ship out artifacts, and where C.J. meets archaeologist Victor Segovia and learns about Mayan astronomy.

14. Coba--This is a Yucatan peninsula jungle-buried city, but local Mayans always knew of it. It is the jumping-off point in the Mimi II curriculum (link at end fo page) for discovery of the undiscovered Site U which is being looted. Coba in reality is famed for a missing king, Chac Balam (Red Jaguar) who disappeared after age 30, with no stone records marking his death--very unusual for a Mayan ruler. Probably mens he was captured by enemies.

11. Copán was one of the largest Mayan cities, and is located furthest south in the old civilization, in Honduras. At Copán is the best-preserved of the ancient sacred ball courts, and a temple with the longest stone inscription in the western hemisphere--some of the most extensive and best material giving promise of decoding the hieroglyphic language. In Mimi II, (link at end of page) one of the sidebar scientific expeditions visits David Stuart, the youth who began translating Maya glyphics at age 9, at Copán.


http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya.html
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/mayamap.html
http://www.kstrom.net/isk/maya/maya2.html

Answer 2

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