Chichen Itza - 7 wonders of World

Deep inside the jungles of Mexico and Guatemala and expanding into the limestone rack associated with Yucatan peninsula lie the mystical temples and pyramids of the Maya. While Europe was still in the middle of the black Ages, these amazing people had mapped the heavens, developed the only real true writing system native to the Americas and had been masters of math. They invented the calendars we utilize today. Without metal tools, beasts of burden if not the wheel these were able to build vast towns and cities across a big jungle landscape with a phenomenal degree of architectural perfection and variety. Their legacy in rock, which includes survived in a spectacular fashion at places such as Palenque, Tikal, Tulum, Chichén Itzá, Copan and Uxmal, lives on as do the seven million descendants of this classic Maya civilization

mayan artThe Maya are most likely the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Belize and western Honduras. Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of early in the day civilizations such as for example the Olmec, the Maya developed astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya had been noted as well for elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and observatories, all built without metal tools. These were additionally skilled farmers, clearing big parts of tropical rainfall woodland and, where groundwater was scarce, building sizable underground reservoirs for the storage of rainwater. The Maya had been similarly skilled as weavers and potters, and cleared tracks through jungles and swamps to foster extensive trade networks with remote individuals.

 Around 300 B.C., the Maya adopted a hierarchical system of government with rule by nobles and kings. This civilization progressed into highly organized kingdoms throughout the Classic period, A.D. 200-900.

Their culture consisted of numerous independent states, each with a rural agriculture community and large urban sites built around ceremonial centers. It began to drop around A.D. 900 when - for reasons that are nevertheless mainly a mystery - the southern Maya abandoned their cities. Whenever the northern Maya had been incorporated into the Toltec culture by A.D. 1200, the Maya dynasty finally arrived to a detailed, however some peripheral centers continued to thrive until the Spanish Conquest in the very early sixteenth century.