The Mayan civilization was located in what is now known as Guatemala‚ Belize‚ Honduras‚ El Salvador and also in the area of the five southern states of Mexico‚ including Campeche‚ Chiapas‚ Quintana Roo‚ Tabasco‚ and Yucatan. The civilization was originally founded during the pre-classic period (about 2‚000 BC to 250 AD). According to the chronology of Central America‚ many of the Mayan cities reached their highest level of sophistication through the classic period (approx. 250 BC to 900 AD)‚ and
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Rivers played a big role in why civilizations were able to grow so large because it could provide people with a way of transportation‚ water to drink‚ and irrigate their crops. The Chinese first started to settle the land about 1.7 billion years ago near the Yun Nan Province in the south near the Yangtze River. Yun Nan has a warm climate to grow crops‚ and the river gave them water to drink and gave them a way to irrigate their crops. Fish also were an abundant food supply. As they prospered‚
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The Mayan Civilization was once an Ancient Native American civilization which eventually expanded to become one of the most “cutting-edge”‚ developed civilizations in the Americas. Those that were part of this civilization were called the “Maya”. The Maya people lived in the eastern and southern areas of what we know today such as Mexico. They lived in regions of Guatemala‚ sections of El Salvador‚ the Belize and western parts of Honduras. The Maya people had constructed tremendous‚ gigantic pyramids
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The old civilizations of America were truly one of the most advanced and thriving civilizations the world has ever come to see. There is no wander that the Spanish colonizers were amazed at what they were seeing. They did not have technologies as advanced as the ones that had been develop in Europe. However they did have an intricate architecture‚ superior buildings‚ and great cultivation methods. Therefore the civilizations of the old America were magnificent and advanced civilizations. The Mayan
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of a civilization‚ but that’s not why. Inequality is simply caused by geography. Geography affects the way a civilization becomes more developed compared to others because‚ geography controls climate which affects the type of food a civilization can grow‚ and what type of animals it can domesticate. Domesticated animals and efficient crops give a civilization time to develop new ideas and invent tools that can help the dominate other cultures. Geographic location affects how a civilization can
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The Maya civilization was developed by the Mayan people and was a Mesoamerican civilization. Maya Civilization resided in a large territory that included covering southeastern Mexico‚ northern Central America and all of the Yucatan Peninsula. Most of the area is covered in vast plains with few mountains and a low coastline. The Mayans were agriculture and worked on city construction‚ stone monuments‚ and building pyramids. They cultivated chili peppers‚ beans‚ sunflower sees‚ squashes‚ cacao‚ vanilla
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MesoAmerica had great civilizations that had marvelous accomplishments before the arrival of the Europeans. The greatest of these civilizations are the Maya‚ the Aztec‚ and the Inca. The Maya‚ known for their writing glyphs‚ and their trade network‚ made them great. Also the Aztec and Inca accomplishments consist of roads‚ trade systems‚ Quipus‚ and much more. The Maya were located in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico‚ and they were also located in parts of Guatemala and Belize. The Inca were located
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The first great civilization on mainland Greece actually bloomed in the demise of the Minoan Civilisation. The Mycenaean Civilisation (1900 – 1100 BC) is also known as the Achaean Civilisation. This is due to the Indo-European migrants‚ who not only settled on mainland Greece but also adapted to the Minoan way of living. Independent city-states such as Pylos‚ Corinth and of course Mycenae which was the most powerful of them all‚ was a characteristic of the Mycenaean Civilisation. Mycenae was
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Most people do not know which ancient civilization had the greatest impact on subsequent human history. The one’s who do know‚ they either chose Egypt‚ Mesopotamia‚ Persia‚ India‚ China or Greece.They all had an impact but only one had the greatest impact. I believe the Persian Civilization had the greatest impact on human history because of their architecture‚ culture and they were also the first civilization empire. First‚ the Persian architecture was a lot different which influence other places
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Civilizations of the Americas The Mayans‚ Aztecs‚ and Incas were three of the most advanced civilization in the Americas. They each brought major accomplishments to the world during their period of reign and some of these accomplishments are still used to this very day. Each one of these civilizations were influenced by foreign countries including: Europe‚ Asia‚ and parts of the Middle East. Some of these accomplishments included agriculture‚ architecture‚ writing‚ and trade. These accomplishments
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