History of Guatemala

Indians were a group of early people who lived in regions from Central America to Mexico. They were a vast and large group and well civilized. The Mayan civilization stretched from the eastern tip of Mexico and the Yucatan Peninsula all the way to Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, and…

Uaxactun is a sacred place of the ancient mayan people. Located in northern guatemala it was first explored by American archaeologists in 1916. The excavations at the temple pyramids of Uaxactun significantly furthered our understanding of ancient mayan civilization. The scholarly article Multispectral imaging of an Early Classic Maya codex fragment from Uaxactun, Guatemala by Nicholas P. Carter & Jeffrey Dobereiner outlines the process of analyzing small fragments of a codex from an ancient…

The Mayans worshipped a religion. Kukulcan was the god of El castillo, Chaac was the god of rain and thunder, and Bolon Tzacab was also known as Huracan. Blue honored the god of Chaac. Bishop Diego de Landa understood the Mayans religion, culture, and language. The maize of god was a model of countly life for classical Maya. Mayan religious is based is based on cycles and not permanence. The surrounding modern day is called oaxaca. They had ballgames, and the losers would get their captains…

political actors are trying to categorize Garifuna as either black or indigenous and forcing this community to fit into either hyphenated identity but not both (Anderson). It is best to identify Garifuna as a unique community because there are have history and experience of both African and indigenous community which is not mutually exclusive. Usually Indigenous community associated with conservative culture and tradition, land encroachment, discrimination as non-Hispanic language and culture,…

Guatemala is a country about the size of Tennessee in southern Central America. According to the Population Reference Bureau, Guatemala has a population of more than fourteen million people since 2010. This makes it one of the most populated countries in Central America. However, Guatemala has high levels of inequality and discrimination especially between the Mayan and Ladino population. Mayans make up 40% of the country, while Ladinos make up the majority 60%. About 60% of all Guatemalans live…

My project is over the Maya’s they exist from 2000 BC to 250 AD. In my essay, I will be talking about the Mayan Calendars, mathematics, and Pyramids. They were located in central American; which is now known as Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. The Mayan calendars started in BCE. The calendar ended in December 2012. December 2012 is when the Mayan calendar had ended and that was one of the reasons why our society had thought the world would end that year. The calendar has been…

The Mayan Calendar has bewildered scholars for quite some time. Its accuracy and detail makes it a well-studied piece of history. Many would say that it’s the most accurate calendar created by any culture. Others believe that it held a more scientific explanation. Throughout the centuries, its meanings have been studied by scholars and discussed at large. Many have linked the calendar to a deeper meaning: the end of days prediction. Propelled by media and notoriety, the association with the…

Xander Jones 1st Period October 25, 2016 The Secrets of the Mayans Many have wondered and marveled at the magnificent architecture of the Mayans, but, did you know that it is all based off astronomy? To what extent does Mayan astronomy relate to modern astronomy? The Mayans have a complex astronomy regime. The entirety of Mayan government relies on the knowledge of many renowned astrologers. Mayans would sacrifice anyone, but those who held the knowledge were spared. The Mayans acquired…

what they do in their life. I, Rigoberta Menchu was a book that showed the horrible life that the Indian people endured and in some places still enduring. The indigenous people of this book went through the pain and suffering that I know from the history of African Americans. This kind of pain is something I can only read or hear about and Menchu does a good job telling about it. This book opened my eyes to the lack of human rights many people have due to their race/culture. When in reality God…

instead of the common Mexican Spanish. Mexican and Guatemalan Spanish ultimately are very much similar because it is spanish except some conversational phrases and terminology are different. This difference is due to the history of the two cultures which some are unaware of; Guatemala denotes influences from the early Mayan civilization and Mexico denotes influences from the early Aztec civilization.…