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ORIGINS - HISTORY
 The
Mayans as culture began forming around 2600 A.C. grouping
itself in nomadic tribes. They settled down and lived in Wendish
them on small families in which now it is Western Honduras,
Guatemala, the whole Yucatan Peninsula and immense areas of
Chiapas and grew through 4.000 years. After settling down
in these areas they began cultivating the maize (the maize).
By previous the his cultural aspects they were similar although
also they presented/displayed the characteristic peculiar
premises, seemed physical characteristics and spoke languages
pertaining to a same linguistic trunk.
In studies made respect to language Mayan, have concluded
that, winch to 2500 a.C., existed a group protomaya where
at the moment Huehuetango in Guatemala, whose members spoke
the same language, call also protomaya by the investigators
and who, with the course of the years is located, subdivided
in different languages mayences. Later, the hablantes of that
language also called protomaya by loas investigators and that,
with the course of the years, was subdivided in different,
languages mayences. Later, the hablantes of that language
emigrated to other places and they seated in the different
sites where, later, the Mayan area would be defined and would
arise its high culture.
 Those
migrations originated so much the separation of the different
groups, like the relation of these with people of other cultures.
This has given rise to the formulation of different theories
about the site where the Mayan culture had its origin. For
some investigators it was in the north of Tabasco and the
south of Veracruz, place in which the groups alternated with
olmecas. One second theory inclines to think that it arose
in mountains of Guatemala, where initiated an agricultural
society, cultivating maize and being transferred later to
the north and the west, where they were also influenced by
the culture olmeca. The culture olmeca is had by the culture
mother, since from her they derive the elements that gave
foundation to the development of other important cultures
in the mesoamericana area. Between the cultural elements more
outstanding bequeathed to the Mayans by olmecas can be mentioned:
different architectonic characteristics and the numerical
system and elementary calendar on the basis of a vigesimal
sequence, that later I evolve in the exact Mayan calendar.
The chronology of the Mayan culture is similar to the one
of all Mesoamerica, although it presents/displays one more
a more precise sequence due to the interpretation of his chronological
jeroglìferos, that have been related to the present
calendar.
The Pre-Hispanic periods of time are Preclásico, Cla'sico
and Posclásico. That one is the way that Mayistas the
4.000 years of the Mayan civilization see. The chronology
of Mayan the this cradle in the style of life and its profits,
in which the Mayan culture gave great jumps when dividing
itself in these three cronometrados periods. When settling
down the groups of Preclásico people I organize myself,
letting grow harvests and also building the first establishments.
The Classic Period is when most of the temples and palaces
was constructed, the art and science reached the excellence
and the religion controlled the culture. The Classic one was
definitively the high part but of this civilization. The civilization
and culture changed dramatically in the Posclásico,
a loss in combined the fine art and the social organization
with the excessive amount of wars, took step to the mysterious
' Fall of the Mayas'.
THE PRECLASICO (2.600 A.C. to 250 D.C.)
 Preclásico,
this formed by three periods of time, Early, Means and Late.
It is in this time of Preclásico, when the Mayans formed
a society and established the bases of their civilization.
The architectonic information of Early Preclásico is
limited, great part of this period this marking by the culture
but that by the construction and the use of the stone that
did not excel, reason why the constructions in this period
were simple, without great structures. Wood wood houses were
constructed formed in I make oval and tiled of palm straw
to protect the house. The kitchen was even made outdoors or
in another small house.
Average Preclásico is the period between 1000 A.C.
and 300 East A.C. period this marking by a great one I number
of constructions and establishments that recognize it. During
this period some establishments of the first days of Preclásico
become cities. They begin the Mayans of this period to settle
down in other places, far from the coast and build his cities.
The Period of Delayed Preclásico sandal of 300 A.C.
to 250 D.C. and this marked by an explosive growth of the
near population and construction of bigger cities. Also the
stone use increased dramatically and took the form in the
form from palaces, temples and pyramids. An increase defined
in the agricultural technology even the techniques of the
irrigation in this period has been identified. The Mayan network
of commerce also began reaching the great proportions by this
time.
Another greater step in this period was the establishment
of governors or the Mayan Majesty. The power of the Mayan
Kings and elite is a great part of the history of the Classic
period, nevertheless, everything began in Preclásico
and during next the two thousand years the principles of Majesty
and the spiritual life that surround to the real family dominated
the Mayan life.
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