Back in ancient times, we did things much different from how we do things now. Especially when it came to cooking foods. The Mayans had many ways of cooking the foods that they ate. They even used little clay balls like we would use coal today to cook our foods. That leads us to the fact that they cooked their foods over fires. They ate these foods to stay alive because even ancient people need food just like us today. Farmers, Bakers, Cooks, etc. also used these foods not just to eat but to sell for money or to trade. Them eating and selling was very important which is what made the foods so important.
