Volume III · The Houses
Maya Civilization
Mesoamerican culture of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Guatemalan highlands, and the surrounding lowlands; emerged in the Preclassic period (c. 2000 BC) and flowered in the Classic period
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01How it began
Mesoamerican culture of the Yucatan Peninsula, the Guatemalan highlands, and the surrounding lowlands; emerged in the Preclassic period (c. 2000 BC) and flowered in the Classic period
02At its height
Classic period (c. 250-900 AD); dozens of competing city-states with monumental architecture, dominated in turn by the Tikal and Snake (Kaan) hegemonies
Territory in the record
Yucatan Peninsula and the Mesoamerican lowlands and highlands across present-day Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador
03What became of it
The southern lowland cities collapsed and were largely abandoned c. 800-900 AD; Postclassic centers persisted in the north (Chichen Itza, Mayapan) until the Spanish conquest was completed in 1697 with the fall of Nojpeten
04What remained
The only fully developed writing system of the pre-Columbian Americas; advanced mathematics with a positional zero, the Long Count calendar, and precise astronomy; roughly six million Maya people and their languages endure today
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