Mayan City States Map
The cities shared the same culture but remained separate from each other.
Mayan city states map. Students learn about the agriculture and trade and they reflect on how people from all around the world all decided to build pyramids. Through a slideshow presentation students learn about the mayan city states with monumental architecture like pyramids temples and palaces. The map shows all the notable cities in the mayan regions mundo maya from the pre classic era through to the post classic era. These cities were designed in a similar pattern.
Among the most notable mayan cities were el mirador tikal caracol and later. There was a palace for the ruler a plaza for the marketplace and several giant stone step pyramids. Maya cities were the centres of population of the pre columbian maya civilization of mesoamerica they served the specialised roles of administration commerce manufacturing and religion that characterised ancient cities worldwide. Many mayan cities had come into being and some of these cities became the centers of different mayan kingdoms.
They lacked the grid plans of the. The lesson introduces information about mayan society which involved a hereditary social class. The maya erected hundreds of ceremonial cities in the rainforests of mesoamerica the region of mexico and central america once occupied by the maya aztecs and related cultures. Students also learn about the mayan religion of worshipping many gods and placing value on calendar predictions.
Mayan cities evolved from smaller towns and villages in mesoamerica which had started coming into being by 1000 b c. Maya cities tended to be more dispersed than cities in other societies even within mesoamerica as a result of adaptation to a lowland tropical environment that allowed food production amidst areas dedicated to other activities. There was never a single mayan empire but rather a widespread interconnected.