Monday, 29 February 2016

Travelling to the Mayan culture

Mayan culture rose in the 2600 BC and lasted until the Spanish conquest, in the 16th century. This civilization was located in present-day Mexico, in Central America. Mayan culture was really advanced at things such as architecture, medicine, agriculture and astronomy.
 In this culture, religion was very powerful. They used to make offerings to their gods through harvest, animals or by sacrificing people. In the interest of their religion they built pyramid temples to praise their gods, and based their astronomy and calendars on their gods vision.
Mayan people worked the land: they were skilled farmers. They worked with on cornfields and their diet was based on that. They had cotton, cacao and vanilla crops, as well as chocolate, in that they were very advanced. Incidentally, they also domesticated dogs for hunting.
One of the most influential things about the Mayan culture was their mathematics and their calendars: in them they made predictions for the future, like the 2012 phenomena everyone was worried about. For them a new way of living and a better world was going to emerge, although I haven’t noticed it yet. Many hypotheses affirm aliens may have visited this civilization and had introduced to them agriculture and technology. There are several drawings of spaceships made by Mayan people, and it is supposed that they left there their artifacts and taught them to use them. Many people believe it could be possible, although there are people who know that the Mayans were very advanced at hallucinogens and so they keep thinking about other theories for those drawings. 
All in all we can say that they were very advanced and who knows what could have happened if they had predicted their extinction.

6 comments:

  1. Alba Cristobal2 March 2016 at 23:22

    Not bad to have a little more culture. I'd like to go to one of those huge, amazing pyramids!

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  2. The images are funny! The Mayan culture it is very important, do you remember when the world was going to end up? 12-12-2012? Learning about cultures is always a benefit for us.

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  3. I have enjoyed the article, but the thing that I liked the most is the aspect of including media such as those photos of short comic sections and jokes! Hahahaha

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  4. I thought that the theories about aliens were practically new . It is surprising that these people already believe in them so many years ago!

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  5. It's good to known how people live and tought so many years ago, how things have improve! I like a lot the photos and i want to visit that pyramids!

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  6. I think it is always good to know culture, and learning in small pieces like in this article is really amazing and enjoyable!!
    What a pity they finally disappeared forever...

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