![]() ![]() It's the name given to it by the Aztecs, but it's believed that at It was believed that it wasĮstablished around 150 B.C.E., based on our best evidence today, and lasted until about the Pretty much everything that you can see in this picture was So you can see from this reconstruction of what the city might have looked like, it was a vast and significant city. See out in the distance, that would have been this pyramid. You have from this picture would have been roughly in that area, so what you're seeing right over here are these. Sophisticated a city this was, this is a reconstruction Is based near modern-day Mexico City, and these are I'll show you what we believed Teotihuacan looked like in a second, but this is a construction of what Tikal might have looked The sophistication of what Mayan cities look like, and Significant influence, and just to get a sense of We know that it was a very powerful city, and that, in the fourth century, it started to really exert Was significant influence or even conquering of some of these cities by another civilization, or maybe we could say another city, and that is Teotihuacan. Now, near the end of the fourth century, there's evidence that there Practiced human sacrifice as part of their believe system, as part of their rituals. Not only a political ruler but also a spiritual ruler, considered a divine king, a connection between the Now, it is believed thatĮach of these city-states, they did have a king who was Or sway over others, but it wasn't a unified empire in the sense of the RomanĮmpire or the Persian Empire or some of the early Indian empires. Like Tikal or Calakmul, might have had influence To the Greek city-states, where each of these cities With a centralized emperor, but rather, it was closer Now, what we now believe is that it was not one unified empire, that there wasn't a Mayan empire It is believed that at their peak, these cities had 50,000 to 100,000 people. ![]() My apologies ahead of timeįor the pronunciation. Their really great cities start to emerge, cities like Tikal and Calakmul. Now, as we get into 250 in the Common Era, that's considered the classical period. So their calendar was moreĪccurate than what was used in most of the world ![]() The art in the western world until the middle of the second millennium. Than the Julian calendar, which was adopted by Julius Caesar, and that was the state of Sophisticated numeral system and the writing that they developed, they also had a very ![]() The first form of writing, well-established writing, in the Americas. Very early form of writing, and it's believed to be So that is a Mayan glyph, and you read it in order like this. These are examples of whatĪ Mayan glyph looks like. Period right over here, we see the first writing. Now, around the third century B.C.E., so roughly in this time Where we see the first evidence of this Mayan numeral system, this base-20 system that had place value. In Europe until about 2000 years after the time Of the world now uses, it wasn't devised, we don't believe, until about 1000 years later, and it wasn't adopted Hindu Arabic numeral system which we now use, and most The use of place value as early as 1000 B.C.E. Was a sophisticated base-20 numeral system that included And even then there are signs of significant cultural advancements. Then we have the emergence of the first cities around 750 B.C.E. Settlements in this region as early as 2000. Modern-day southeast Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Western Honduras, and El Salvador. Peninsula in the north, the Sierra Madre Mountains in the south, and it covers regions of Outline here on this map of where the Mayan civilization occurred. Long-lasting civilizations, not just in the ancient Americas, but in the world in general. The Mayan civilization is one of the most ![]()
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