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Venus was associated with warand battles

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In the Mesoamerican culture, the practice of  astronomy was extremely important.

To the Maya of Mesoamerica, this ancient  science reflected order in the universe and the gods' place in it.

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the myans used there shadows to tell time

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up to 100

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No culinary exploration of Maya life would be complete without tamales. Made from masa harina (corn flour) and filled with chicken, pork, vegetables, and/or cheese, tamales are wrapped in corn husks—or a banana or plantain leaf—and steamed. Then they’re unwrapped and topped with salsa. Some tamales are made with fruit or other sweet fillings. In much of the Maya world, indigenous women walk door to door selling baskets of fragrant tamales.

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they would draw it out as well

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the Mayan calendar finished in 2012

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Cacao is endemic to the lands of the Maya, who were the first to take the

seeds of the fruit and roast them to make hot chocolate. The ancient Maya

didn’t make candy bars, nor did they add sugar and milk to the cacao. Instead

they took their chocolate as a ceremonial elixir and a savory mood enhancer.

For the Maya, cacao was a sacred gift of the gods, and cacao beans were used

as currency. Ek Chuah, the Maya god of merchants and trade, was also the patron

of the cacao crop. When the Spanish invaded Maya lands in the 1500s, they adopted

the beverage, adding sugar and milk to make it sweet and creamy.

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Itzamna

The founder of the Maya culture, he taught his people to grow maize and

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they would rely on the stars for there crops to grow

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the action of a god's  could be read in the stars

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the head of family had people to help with the decisions

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Handmade Guatemalan tortillas provide an elemental satisfaction. In outdoor markets, you can hear a rhythmic clapping as women pat them into shape, then cook them on a comal, a big wood-fired iron or clay pan that looks like a Caribbean steel drum. These tortillas are only three or four inches across but thicker than what North Americans are accustomed to.

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they would write it down in books.

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there was one family Incharge

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The Astronomy was for telling when it was a good time to plant crops

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The Mayan maths looks a lot more complicated then the maths we do now.

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there maths was  a lot harder than our maths

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The avocado, originating in southern Mexico and Guatemala, is loved for its rich taste and creamy texture and was a treasured crop of the ancient Maya. Even today a person from Antigua Guatemala is called a panza verde, or green belly, because of the region's reliance on avocados in hard times.

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the Mayan thought that the world will go boom in 2012

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most of there building ideas came

from the sky

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The MAYANS eats' chocolate, animels,

and other foods'.

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maze was a really important to the Myans

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Seeing where your coffee comes from is an eye-opening experience. The typical coffee plantation tour includes a visit to fields (and often an explanation about the virtues of shade-grown coffee), continues to areas where the beans are dried and processed, and ends with a cup of café

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The Mayan civilisation had settled in the region of Central America from about 2000 BC, although the so-called Classic Period stretches from about 250 AD to 900 AD. At its peak, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world.

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To play Pok-a-tok, two teams of seven players each tried to get a hard rubber ball through a small
stone hoop.
Legend tells us that these games could be very brutal,

and in some cases the members of the losing team

were sacrificed to the gods. The players were sometimes

warriors captured from a nearby village, and

forced to play the bloody and painful sport.

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This is what they would do when they learnt astronomy.

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If floods occurred the crops that would be growing would be washed away and unable to be harvested. Field workers would have to start the harvesting season all over again and probably only end up with half the amount of crops that were actually planted in the first place.

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Mayans built loads of cities

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The most important planet for the Maya was Venus.

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The Maya calendar uses three different dating systems in parallel, the Long Count,

the Tzolkin (divine calendar), and the Haab (civil calendar). Of these, only the

Haab has a direct relationship to the length of the year.

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they like to eat corn

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This distinctly Yucatecan dish dates to the days before refrigeration, when meat was preserved with salt. Slow-cooked pork is combined with sour orange juice and vinegar to temper the saltiness of the meat.

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The Mayan astronomy was driven by the unique and rich mythology of the Mayans and their belief in the structure and order of the universe, which they perceived as made of overlapping cycles, interdependent upon each other

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The Mayans told time by using sun dials.

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Mayan priest-astronomers translated celestial movements for rulers and the inhabitants of local city-states.

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This is a name list of Maya gods and supernatural beings playing a role in the Classic (200-900AD) and Post-Classic 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. Depending on the source, most names are either Yucatec or K'iche'.

The Classic Period names (belonging to a language related to modern Ch'ol and Ch'orti') are only rarely known with certainty

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The Mayans were the most important of the cultured native peoples of North  Americaii

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the Mayans used a shell as zero. dots for 1 to 4 and a bar for 5 the Mayan

number system was a base 20 system. they used the numerical system

primarily for calender and astronomical work ,not to count people or objects

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Very few ancient astronomers capture the imagination in quite the same way as the Mayans

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The Mayan civilization was not one unified empire, but rather a multitude  of separate entities with a common cultural background

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Mayans lived in cental mexico

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the Mayans used a shell as zero. dots for 1 to 4 and a bar for 5 the Mayan

number system was a base 20 system. they used the numerical system primarily

for calender and astronomical work ,not to count people or objects

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Maya people had a class structured society. At the top were the nobles and priests. They had a middle class

of craftsmen, traders, and warriors. At the bottom, as usually in ancient time, were the farmers and slaves.

The Maya did not use their own people as slaves. Slaves were captured from other tribes.

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the reason we have astronomy today is because of the myans

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Maize was a very holy and sacred food because they has a maize god, his name was, Ah Mun

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Maize was very important to the Mayan society, it was like their God's (they worshiped it.)

The reason they worshiped it was a story where the God's tried to make human's and Maize helped make them.

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The calendar dates back to at least the 5th century

BC and is still in use in a few Mayan communities today.

The Mayan calendar moves in cycles with the last cycle

ending in December 2012.

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the mayans made lots of cities

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Mayan manly built piryids

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The Ancient Mayan were keep astronamas, recording every  aspect of the sky . As
they  believe  in the actions  of the gods

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they made blood sacrifices to the gods

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it was for telling when it was a good time to plant crops

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The Maya year has a basic unit called  Kin, a word that means day or sun
the Mayan had a calendar with 18 months with 20 days.

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the Maya built tons of cities

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the mayans mainly made pyramids

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most of the building ideas came from the sky

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The Mayans told time using

sundials that told time using

the positions of the sun.

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The four staple food in Mayan society are: squash, beans, maize and chili pepers.

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the Mayan's had no central government

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the actions of a god could be read in the stars.

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The Mayans had completely different numbers to us.

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Mayans believed that their Gods lived in the stars.