求助玛雅文化的英文介绍短文

求助玛雅文化的英文介绍短文
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Maya culture is the world's most ancient cultures in the world,known as the cradle of American Indian culture.Maya culture in the region of south-eastern Mexico,including the Yucatan peninsula today,Guatemala Tika.Copán in western Honduras,Vasak links (the oldest known Mayan cities).El Salvador and Belize and part of the region,a total of about 325,000 square kilometers.Maya cultural development is divided into three periods :pre-classical period (about 475 1500- AD 317),Classical period (317-889 AD) and after the classical period (889-1697 2000.The last group organized in 1697 by the Spanish conquest Maya).Ancient Maya maize agriculture is the main economic activity.They are using the primitive slash-and-burn farming methods,the earliest cultivated crops such as corn and sweet potato,and mastered the turkeys.Bee dogs and the technology,fiber and weaving with Agave flowered,and the production of painted pottery.In business,mainly for Maya barter trade activities sometimes cacao as a common currency.Maya also architecture,sculpture,paintings,hieroglyphic characters,astronomy,calendars and mathematics fields has achieved a remarkable success.About 475 early in 1500,settled into the agricultural life of the Maya era.475,gradually formed the city.Around 300-900 AD,the Mayan civilization is a period of great prosperity,the city has a size of over 100.Many of these cities,organized,well-grand architecture,a rich culture.Maya culture,religion occupies a very important position,The grand worship at the altar of the temple building as a pyramid,an awe-inspiring.Maya is an important form of worship enshrined victims,including food,jewelry and even alive.January 1 Maya in size or in shallow relief sculpture has been made by the higher attainments.Maya mural painting commonly used forms,the figure depicts expressive.In addition,pottery and metal plates have a beautiful picture.475,the Maya creation of an independent picture of pictographic characters,they will bark and saturated and compacted gum.Then put a layer of lime,on the bark painting,writing hieroglyphs,the number of gods,goddesses and animal images.800 graphics and text from the ancient Mayan symbols,language and the juxtaposition of color pictures,and text.Many manuscripts found in Maya history,legends and calendars.However,the vast majority of Spanish colonists as "the devil's work" reduced to ashes.So far only three of the Mayan culture preserved ancient manuscripts,which were collected in European museums.In addition to manuscripts,also preserved in the ancient Maya text columns among the inscriptions of ancient buildings and monuments.Maya attaches great importance to history,and every 20 years to foster a pillar in the city,with the Maya recorded events.Therefore,the history of the ancient Maya culture is the only American to be proved,based on the culture.Here in mind the history of the Maya tradition has lasted 1,200 years,which were interrupted by the invasion after the Spanish colonizers.Mayan calendar produced in 2500,the calendar for a week to 13 days,20 days in January to 18 months to a year.plus five days as taboo,365 days a year,for 52 years for the cycle.Mayan calendar than Rome,ancient Greece,ancient calendars and more accurate.Maya also built some astronomical observatory,we can figure out the moon and planets eclipse and operation cycle time.January 1 Maya notable achievements in math,they have to share the fingers and toes,20 used method of calculation.What merits special mention is that Maya is able to apply the concept of Europe as early as seven,eight hundred years.After Mayan culture in the classical period,because of the hurricane,plague and war and other disasters,the rapid decline of the ancient Mayan civilization.All major cities have been abandoned.When the Spaniards invaded,the Maya Youkada peninsula,the city is fragmented,declining as a whole.If before January 1,Mayan culture is the most advanced ancient cultures of the Americas,in the material and cultural achievements substantial.Mexico and some Central American countries still have an important impact.But with the same period compared to the European continent advanced civilization,it is primitive and backward.Thus,the 16th century Spanish invasion,the fragile Maya culture was severely crushed.