History of Guatemala

Guatemala is a central American country south of Mexico. It is home to volcanoes, rainforest, and ancient Mayan sites. More than half of Guatemala’s population lives in rural areas. Many who live in these areas have low access to household items. Families that live there face barrier problem to get access to health care. Although Guatemala have many health specialist in their cities, most Guatemalans lack money and access to healthcare therefore facing a major health crisis. The health crisis…

Right now there are many different human rights violations going on in Guatemala. Some of the violations include genocide, police brutality, and crimes against women. The reason that the crimes against women are happening is because people in Guatemala look down on women. Men think that women are below them which is definitely not true. Police brutality and genocide are happening because people think that they have the power or right to treat people like nonhumans and do whatever they want.…

As the people migrated to the Americas, it was long till kingdoms began to evolve. Around 600 BCE towns evolved to cities, and chieftains transformed into kings. One of the know culture’s and kingdom that control the Yucatan Peninsula was the Mayas. The Maya were a very religious culture, who in fact lived in the fear of the destructive nature of the gods. One thing that was important part of their religion was the death rituals. The Mayan people developed multiple traditions to commemorate the…

The Popol Vuh is an ancient sacred Mayan book of myths written from the Mayan World. The myths within the Popol Vuh are used as a way to explain the world, by connecting myth to reality. The myths within the Popol Vuh explain how their world was created through a creation story and has basic social lessons through stories of the hero twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Myths are used to teach lessons to people through the interconnection of myth and reality, and the Popol Vuh is no exception. Myths…

The most powerful way of defeating an enemy is by using their own weapons against them. Rigoberta Menchú is an Indian woman from Guatemala who was constantly discriminated aginst and terrorized for being Indian. Rigoberta and her community got tired of being pushed around as if they were nothing. The discrimination and terrorism from the Ladinos became too much for the Indians that they had to defend themselves, and they began to use their knowledge to help their community survive. Rigoberta…

Imagine walking back to town after a long vacation, after arriving and looking around one may find that no one is there and the place is completely abandoned. Thats a lot like what happened to the Mayans. The Mayans lived in Mesoamerica from 1800 B.C. to 900 A.D. The Mayan civilization reached its peak of power in the sixth century A.D. and had a peak population of two million. The Mayan are most known for disappearing in 900 A.D., a mystery still unknown. There are many theories around their…

The Maya civilization developed in an area that encompasses southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador. Time periods include: Pre-classic Period (2000 BC to 250 AD) Classic Period (250 AD to 900 AD) Post-classic Period (900 AD to 1500 AD) Colonial Period (1500 AD) The Preclassic period was a time that the Mayans thrived in farming, architecture, and they began to create their cultural. In the Preclassic age Mayan writings started…

The book titled Popol Vuh written by Dennis Tedlock is a book filled with tales of mytho-historical narratives that were founded in the kingdom of K’iche’ in the West Highlands of Guatemala. The title Popol Vuh can be translated to mean the “Book of the People”. In Popol Vuh we can find many different tales, however the most popular tales are those of the creations myths, and the ones of the Hero Twins, Hunahpu and Xbalanque. Popol Vuh has been a book that has greatly influenced the Mayan…

All Calendars were so different back then. In today world all the calendars are the same, but the only difference is that they all have their own meaning depending on the culture you are from. They also have more days or months added to there year. Many people use to think that the Mayan calendar was something real that everything it said was true. It turns out that the Mayan Calendar use to say that the world was going to end and it turns out it wasn't true. I believe that people should have…

Four American men are going to a rural area in Guatemala for the summer living off one dollar a day. They’re motivated to take this challenge because 1.1 billion people around the world live off one dollar a day. Guatemala goes through severe poverty. Workers in Guatemala never know when they’ll get paid, while the kids in Guatemala can’t go to school because they work to provide more money for their family. If you lose everything you have here, you have nothing. Americans however, live off 109…