![]() This put an end to the Mesoamerican cultural progress, and the Mayas remained subdued and marginalized in their own lands. The Postclassicīegun around the 10th Century, it ends with the Spanish conquest in the 16th Century. The political and cultural activities cease in the great classical cities in the central area, many of which are abandoned, and the period denominated the Postclassic begins. Towards the 9th Century, a cultural collapse appears, whose cause could have been an economic, and consequently sociopolitical, crisis. In the same way great ceremonial centers and cities are built, where the sciences, arts, and historiography flourish. Which begins around the 3rd Century, constitutes an era of flourishing in all the disciplines: great development occurs in agriculture, there is an increase in technology, an intensification in commerce, and the political, social, sacerdotal, and military hierarchy is consolidated. ![]() In which the features which characterized the Maya culture were organized agriculture becomes the economic foundation, the first villages and ceremonial centers arise, and various cultural activities relating to religion begin. ![]() The historical trajectory of the Pre-Hispanic Maya civilization has been divided into three periods: The Preclassic There are elevations which surpass 1500 meters above sea level. The climate is temperate and cold in the mountains, with hot and humid zones, populated densely for the most part with pine groves and cypresses. It encompasses the highlands and the coastal strip of the Pacific Ocean, with part of Chiapas, Guatemala, and El Salvador. It has a hot and humid climate, with abundant rains during their season. Includes from the Usumacinta or Grijalva River in the current state of Tabasco, to the eastern part of Honduras, also including the Guatemalan Department of Petén, Belize, and part of Chiapas. There are no rivers on the surface, but the terrain is permeable and water filters through it rapidly, forming subterranean currents which open in natural mouths called “cenotes.” 2nd – Central Zone: In such territory, the terrain is stony and semiarid with lower areas where a vast calcareous plain with the vegetation of low hills predominates, with a climate which is regularly dry and excessively warm. Which includes the current states of Yucatan, in its totality and the greater part of Campeche and Quintana Roo. ![]() They were divided, for the purposes of this study, in three large regions or natural zones: 1st- Northern Zone The ancient Maya culture covered the southeast territory of what is today the Mexican republic and which corresponds to the states of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Quintana Roo, and the eastern portion of Chiapas, as well as the greater part of Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and Belize, covering a territorial extension which varies, according to the various archaeologists and historians, between 325,000 and 400,000 Km2, having as its limits the Gulf of Mexica and the Caribbean Sea the Pacific Ocean the Grijalva River (known in Guatemala as the Usumacinta River) in the state of Tabasco, the Ulúa River, and the Lempa River, in what is now Honduras and El Salvador, respectively. There has also been much discussion on the “disappearance” of the Mayas, but this is an error, as what disappeared was their liberty and the great culture they created in the Pre-Hispanic era but the Maya men with their daily customs and a good part of all their beliefs still remain in their original regions, sustained in their same ancestral conception of the world and of life. In this post, we will observe the three great periods of the course of Maya history, which are: Preclassic, Classic, and Postclassic. ![]()
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