Origins Of The Mayan Civilization

ORIGINS OF THE MAYAN CIVILIZATION

Introduction.

The Mayan culture is originally from the tropical forests of Mesoamerica is considered a culture with great historical contribution to humanity Some features that make it different from other tribes are its hieroglyphs that you compare more than 700 signs, the use of a fictitious vault in architectureAnd a system to measure time which has a precise date. Currently Mayan culture is what is known as Yucatan, Campeche and Quintana Rouparte de Guatemala and another part of Honduras and Belize approximately 280.000 km square.

Developing.

The Maya began their settlements in Peten in which they were creating small populations before the Christian era all culture was characterized because their population had kinancestors. It can be said that their society could only be made up of kings, gods, warriors, priests, artisans, merchants and peasants except for slaves they had to stay away from the kinship system.

The Maya were a tribe like any other formed a warrior society nothing peaceful, only the descendants of the founder were true gods who inherited the political-economic, judicial and military command of the tribe and only they had the right to give power to their brothersnephews to have political positions that demanded responsibility. The hereditary position could only go from parents to children although if the Ahou died without heirs the title could go to women and if there were either heirs, the position passed to the older brother.

Halach Huinin managed the entire community from the capital and thus was helped by the rest of the rulers who were responsible for administering the secondary centers, supervising the collection of taxes and distributing justice. In times of war, the power of the Bataboob had to be assigned to the Nacom who had power for a period of time that could not be overcome by the three years. This culture took full advantage of its land because the agricultural activity was its main production, only AHAU could distribute these lands to families their crops were in charge of each peasant although he had to deliver a certain percentage to the Lord because they helped support the familydominant

The trade was controlled by the true man, the merchants created the commercial network and through them luxuries could be imported, which could be jade, salt, feathers among others and handicrafts, cocoa, cotton among others, their great growth factor, its great factor of growth,Economic trade was the hydrological system of the lands which helped obtain rapid communication routes. It was both the increase in the commercial activity that the currency arrived which was represented by cocoa, jade accounts and the copper making from Ecuador.

Another means of Mayan economy was done by free personal work that justified with religious motives provided the necessary labor to build public buildings. The Maya used religion as a political tool, this achievement to submit to peasant society who believed that they did not need any other authority to survive, demonstrated that the social system was based on a theological thinking which believed that the objectivity of the universal order was invariableand could not be changed.

The gods had a limited command that allowed them to contribute momentarily in the march of the universe, although this influence could not change the cosmic order which was above them. A kind god is considered when he helped men and a cruel god when he harmed, eh there are why they were considered dual because they could be good or bad, young or old, man or woman, the main Mayan god was Itzam Ná who according toThey were from whom I believed human life, another God was Bolom Dz’acab who represented vegetation and fertility and his wife Ix Chebbel Yax who represented the weavers and was represented as an old woman painted red

Chac was the god of the rains was associated with water, there was also the god of the sun which was called Ki-Nich Ahau and the Ah Mun The young mass the young mass that represented corn was more related to what agriculture is. IX Chel was the god of sex, fertilization and childbirth, ah puch the god of the dead, tox God of war, ek chuac god of merchants when they died they also considered them gods, all these gods were worshipedIn the same way, it was believed that they were those who maintained the social order.

The fractions and logarithms dominated these were the foundations for creating the system of being able to measure time which directed the course of men and even the gods. These managed two calendars, one was the Tzolkin was the one in charge of the rituals had 260 days which were divided into thirteen months and twenty days predicted the future of the people and the Haab or also known as a lot consisted of 360 dayseighteen months and twenty days to which five nefarious days were added. These calendars together were called a short account. The Maya created another calendar with much more complexity and was called a long account which managed to count the time that had passed since the creation of the world.

They had a peculiar distraction, it was a ball game very similar to football in which the prisoners participated and the loser was decapitated. Although in reality according to investigations it is believed that it was a kind of ritual for the sun god which was represented by the ball which they believed was the source of life.

Conclusions.

The Maya are considered as the Greeks of a new world and partly have a lot of certain because their people develop a totally different culture in what is abstract and intellectual. This people managed to create the numbering for the need to account for the astronomical observations with which it was that they were directed for the agricultural cycle, this system was twit. These numbers were represented by points and bars.