https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te Maya Civilization, Mexico & Central America, 500 BC-800 CE en-us 2020-11-24 00:14:39 UTC 2025-09-28 12:27:14 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3dc.png rc22369 https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954397338 The Maya were Mesoamerican that lived in southern Mexico, Northern Belize and Guatemala. The Maya had one of the greatest civilizations of the western hemisphere and practiced a form of hieroglyphic writing, agriculture, mathematics and built great stone buildings. I learned that the Mayan social stucture was class based, meaning the highest class were supreme rulers or emperors. ]]> 2020-11-24 00:20:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954397338 rc22369 https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954420359 The Maya were known for there very high level of artistic achievement in there architecture and sculpture. They also were skilled in calendar making and there calendars were very accurate. They were also very skilled in mathematics and had a mastery of the science of astronomy! One of the most amazing thing about the Maya civilization was there ability to build a great empire in the tropical rainforest climate. ]]> 2020-11-24 00:32:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954420359 rc22369 https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954469934 There not exactly sure what happened but heres what I found while researching. In the 9th century lots of Mayan city sates had a sudden collapse in population and this could have been due to environmental decline, meaning that the Maya had exhausted the environment around them to where they couldn't support a large population but others believe that it was likely that a very long and intense period of drought could have wiped the Maya civilization. ]]> 2020-11-24 00:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954469934 rc22369 https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954489599 The Maya civilization existed in the Yucatan Peninsula, northern Belize, southern Mexico, modern day Guatemala, and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador. ]]> 2020-11-24 01:04:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954489599 rc22369 https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954505203 The earliest Maya settlements date around 1800 B.C. The Classic period of the Maya began around 250 A.D and was the golden age of the Maya empire, and by 900 A.D The southern lowlands were abandoned and the Maya civilization in the region collapsed. ]]> 2020-11-24 01:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954505203 rc22369 https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954517509 Because of its complex astronomical, political, mathematical, and scientific achievements. It makes the Mayan Civilization the most researched and studied ancient culture in all of Latin America. The Maya civilization were one of the greatest civilizations in history and the empire thrived for a very long time. ]]> 2020-11-24 01:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rc22369/7rmimfih9t4n02te/wish/954517509