The Maya Civilisation of Central America counted 13 million people. Their territory reached from Chichen Itza on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula through Tikal in Guatemala to Copan in Honduras.
had a thin constitution, they had wide nostrils, thick
lips, the skin was black.
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Lifestyle of people Maya People lived in tribes in
caves, they hunted, fished, grew up cultural cereals. They
worshipped to the gods and submitted to tsars and priests, built temples and palaces, made ritual ceremonies, sacrificed itself, at war with neighbours.
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The Maya Civilisation has been destroyed as a
result of change of the climate. The drought lasted
decades rains dropped out seldom, there were few rivers, they could not be engaged in agriculture. People didn’t wish to surrender and tried to adapt to new conditions of a life more quickly. But more and more people perished for famine and as a result the whole Maya Civilisation died. Ruins of over 100 cities (the largest Tikal, Uxmal, Mayanpan) were kept.
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