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Maya Tribe
Who Are
They
Contact With The Europeans
Aji & Sharese
Who Are They
- The Maya Tribe are Mesoamerican Indians
- occupy nearly continuous territory in southern Mexico, Guatemala, and Northern Belize
- 30 Mayan languages were spoken by more 5 million people
- They excelled at agriculture, pottery, writing, and etc.
Where Are They From
- The Maya Originated in The Yucatan around 2600 B.C.
- around A.D. 250 they rose to prominenece in present-day Southern Mexico, Guatemala, Northern Belize and Western Honduras.
TimeFrame They Existed
What Are They Known For
What Did They Contribute
Developed a Written language of Hieroglyphs and invented the Mathematical Concept of Zero.
What Are
They Known
For
The Maya Tribe of the Mesoamerican people is known by its ancient temples and glyphs. The Tikal is one of the most famous Ancient Temple.
What Happened To Them?
A major drought occurred about the time the Maya began to disappear. And at the time of their collapse, the Maya had cut down most of the trees across large swaths of the land to clear fields for growing corn to feed their burgeoning population. They also cut trees for firewood and for making building materials. Although the mayan descendants and culture is still alive today according to multiple sources.
What Happened To Them
Who Displaced Them?
The Spanish forcibly relocated the Mayans to the pueblos and put them under the control and administration of the Spanish Empire.
Who Displaced Them?
Contact With The Europeans
The first contact between the Maya and European explorers came in 1502, during the fourth voyage of Christopher Columbus, when his brother Bartholomew encountered a canoe. Several Spanish expeditions followed in 1517 and 1519, making landfall on various parts of the Yucatán coast.
Religion
Maya religion was polytheistic, which means they believed in many gods. Central to the Maya religion was animism, a belief that all things, even inanimate objects, had a soul. The Maya word for this sacredness of all things was k'uh.
Religion
Art & Architecture
Maya Architecture and Art is a sophisticated sense of decoration and art, expressed in bas-relief carvings and wall paintings. At major sites like Tikal, large buildings and complexes might also have been interconnected by stone roads or causeways. The most impressive Maya site is the Well Known Tikal in Guatemala.