Clarify the history of the Maya World harmony is difficult by the multiplicity of existing data.The Yucatan peninsula, southeast of Mexico, was the territory to which a large number of migrated Maya. There were several groups of people, as there were people in this land many centuries of the Christian era, at this stage is known as the Old Empire. Partly lived in swamps and rain forests of Chiapas, Guatemala and Yucatan ... Their settlements extended over an area of over eight hundred miles around. However, the social and cultural flourishing of the Maya who is known as the New Kingdom, joined other immigrant groups, including Nahua or Mexica origin. In Central America, little groups established magnets, Quiché and Poconchi, in the highlands of Guatemala. At the time of the New Empire was less hot climate and the valleys and plateaus less clear and full of vegetation.
The geography of the Old and the New Empire Maya was different: In the first the land was very fertile and prodigious, with plenty of water and many rivers. At the time of the second, the exuberance and abundance was lower, however, abundant deer, pheasants and reptiles and insects of many species. The land was difficult, even to the present-not to have layers deep, and subsoil was and is composed of limestone that was used by the Maya builders to build its impressive pyramids.
The social and cultural discovery of the New Empire as the seat was what the Maya called "Ulúumilcutz Yetel CEH" (Land of turkeys and deer) and Petén (Shire or land). By the early sixteenth century Mayab called, and they put the Spanish Yucatán to distort the words that they heard the Maya.
The people of Chichen Itza Chi were the first inhabitants of the region, even several centuries before the Christian era. It became an urban center, named after a Mayan language Nahuatl language and other (800 to 1000 AD) the Toltec influence (which they will travel shortly and informs him of it) is in the development of the city, in their political and religious importance, focusing on the Sacred Cenote.
The "Tutulxiúes" to turn founded Uxmal, and others are set to Mayapan. 1250 to 1441, Mayapan became the largest center of economic and political power. Among the major tribes and cities, a partnership was structured allowed a situation of peace and development, with important results for the Mayan culture. The Cocom family held power at Mayapan. Some time later, the tyranny of their characters produced a series of rebellions among the Allies that would lead to decay, preventing establishment of a new confederation to save them from destruction. Thereafter, no special Mayan city reached dominance over others. The common thing was the constant struggle against each other, the division of power in many small chiefdoms and a noticeable decline in the general culture.
In the ninth century, a series of natural calamities like hurricanes, epidemics and other disorders, further clouded the later stages of the New Empire. It ended abruptly, the cities were abandoned and the priests may have taken refuge in the Yucatan or elsewhere. At the time of the Conquest were divided into 19 domains, whose degree of political and cultural force was very low. This situation facilitated the Spanish penetration. It was a sad end to the great Mayan culture that did not even know fall, as the Aztec, wrapped in a halo of glory.
Meanwhile, other events happening in the Mexican plateau. In southern Oaxaca, Zapotec civilization was flourishing and played men of Monte Alban and Mitla make his story ... soon we will be there and that we will be reporting.
As a curious note will say that in 1904 and 1907 archaeologists Bowdicht Stephen Charles Salisbury and performed a scan to Dzonot (Sacred Cenote) Chi Chen Itza, taking jewelry, relics and 5000 kilos of gold. The Mexican government later sued the heirs of archaeologists but lost the lawsuit.
It is important to know that land travel to the Yucatan Peninsula should be careful to drink only bottled water and non-local brand preferences and be prepared to deal with those pesky mosquitoes and recommended intakes of vitamins B1 and B6 away these insects, as there is a species that can cause dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever with fatal consequences. Women are attacked more, so of pheromones, and prefer to bite people with white skin. It is advisable to rent a compact car with climate for doing all the tours, because their cost is only $ 40 and includes daily mileage. As for food, only take place in places that are observed hygiene and housekeeping. On trips bring their own food and water and places to go to sea, eating fish that is prepared right there on the grill with tortillas, without any fear. If we were bitten by a mosquito that causes headaches and body aches and even fever, it is preferable to take homeopathic medicine is prepared in the city of Merida in a pharmacy that is located between Calle 65 X 62, face a major newspaper local and ask for the formula to combat these symptoms that if not addressed, could become fatal.
The geography of the Old and the New Empire Maya was different: In the first the land was very fertile and prodigious, with plenty of water and many rivers. At the time of the second, the exuberance and abundance was lower, however, abundant deer, pheasants and reptiles and insects of many species. The land was difficult, even to the present-not to have layers deep, and subsoil was and is composed of limestone that was used by the Maya builders to build its impressive pyramids.
The social and cultural discovery of the New Empire as the seat was what the Maya called "Ulúumilcutz Yetel CEH" (Land of turkeys and deer) and Petén (Shire or land). By the early sixteenth century Mayab called, and they put the Spanish Yucatán to distort the words that they heard the Maya.
The people of Chichen Itza Chi were the first inhabitants of the region, even several centuries before the Christian era. It became an urban center, named after a Mayan language Nahuatl language and other (800 to 1000 AD) the Toltec influence (which they will travel shortly and informs him of it) is in the development of the city, in their political and religious importance, focusing on the Sacred Cenote.
The "Tutulxiúes" to turn founded Uxmal, and others are set to Mayapan. 1250 to 1441, Mayapan became the largest center of economic and political power. Among the major tribes and cities, a partnership was structured allowed a situation of peace and development, with important results for the Mayan culture. The Cocom family held power at Mayapan. Some time later, the tyranny of their characters produced a series of rebellions among the Allies that would lead to decay, preventing establishment of a new confederation to save them from destruction. Thereafter, no special Mayan city reached dominance over others. The common thing was the constant struggle against each other, the division of power in many small chiefdoms and a noticeable decline in the general culture.
In the ninth century, a series of natural calamities like hurricanes, epidemics and other disorders, further clouded the later stages of the New Empire. It ended abruptly, the cities were abandoned and the priests may have taken refuge in the Yucatan or elsewhere. At the time of the Conquest were divided into 19 domains, whose degree of political and cultural force was very low. This situation facilitated the Spanish penetration. It was a sad end to the great Mayan culture that did not even know fall, as the Aztec, wrapped in a halo of glory.
Meanwhile, other events happening in the Mexican plateau. In southern Oaxaca, Zapotec civilization was flourishing and played men of Monte Alban and Mitla make his story ... soon we will be there and that we will be reporting.
As a curious note will say that in 1904 and 1907 archaeologists Bowdicht Stephen Charles Salisbury and performed a scan to Dzonot (Sacred Cenote) Chi Chen Itza, taking jewelry, relics and 5000 kilos of gold. The Mexican government later sued the heirs of archaeologists but lost the lawsuit.
It is important to know that land travel to the Yucatan Peninsula should be careful to drink only bottled water and non-local brand preferences and be prepared to deal with those pesky mosquitoes and recommended intakes of vitamins B1 and B6 away these insects, as there is a species that can cause dengue and dengue hemorrhagic fever with fatal consequences. Women are attacked more, so of pheromones, and prefer to bite people with white skin. It is advisable to rent a compact car with climate for doing all the tours, because their cost is only $ 40 and includes daily mileage. As for food, only take place in places that are observed hygiene and housekeeping. On trips bring their own food and water and places to go to sea, eating fish that is prepared right there on the grill with tortillas, without any fear. If we were bitten by a mosquito that causes headaches and body aches and even fever, it is preferable to take homeopathic medicine is prepared in the city of Merida in a pharmacy that is located between Calle 65 X 62, face a major newspaper local and ask for the formula to combat these symptoms that if not addressed, could become fatal.
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