Maya & Miguel

Jean Reyes Period 5 12-13-16 Mayan’s Most Remarkable Achievement The Mayans have accomplished many remarkable things like, their Mayan calendar, trade network map, and building cities, Even though those are remarkable, I think that their number system was the most remarkable thing that they have. The next remarkable thing that the Mayans did was their trade network map. The Mayans really had no transportation to get to where they wanted to be, and they had to carry everything themselves…

When Maya Lin was designing her memorial in Washington, D.C., she wanted to build it in a park but didn’t want to interfere with nature by destroying the park. So she cooperated with the surrounding environment by designing her memorial that would work with…

The Mayan Indians: The Largest Indigenous Indian Group in North America Dating back as far as 50,000 B.C. and originally coming from Asia across the Bering Sea and Alaska to the Americas and the Yucatan peninsula during the last ice age, the Mayan Indians are an indigenous group of culturally diverse people. The ancient Mayans lived in present-day southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and western El Salvador having a population of eight million at the Pre-Columbian period, and at the…

by topic. Maya exhibition was the most impressive one as it presents casts of massive monuments from Quirigua, a site in Guatemala. The exhibition takes place in the Rotunda Gallery. Large scale monuments and location in the central gallery attracts many visitors. The monuments have unique hieroglyphic writing about important events in the Maya history, the manes of the rulers, and significant ceremonies. With these casts of the monuments, the exhibition cover the whole history of Maya.…

The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley, is a World War 2 film, based on a true story of how those of the British Intelligence cracked the codes of the Enigma, an advanced German coding machine. The film was not bashed for its historical accuracy, but some of that ease on the criticism may have been because Alan Turing has finally been given justice after 60 years. The historical inaccuracies were not major, although added up, they play a key role in the interest…

The poem that I have chosen to write about was Touched by an Angels by Maya Angelou. Which was about expresses the information that while love can hurt us it is eventually the only things that can heal the damage that it has caused, we can learn to use love in our favor. If we accept it and learn to love than we can live our life fearless. That love costs so much because we have to be open, be honest and show who we really are, we have to give and receive and be courageous enough to do that.…

This article was originally published in 1962, by American Anthropologist; it studies the agriculture in the Maya Lowlands during the 1960’s to better understand the agriculture techniques of the ancient Mayan civilization. In addition, the study utilized the data to explain why the decrease in the Mayan population over time. It was determined that prior to performing the study that the climate was that of a tropical rainforest and that the climate had no changes from ancient Mayan time until…

societal complexity grew: urbanization, economic complexity, record keeping and scientific enhancement, architectural advancement, state religion, and state organization. This paper will discuss the similarities and differences between the Harappan and Maya civilizations relative to the six trends of a complex society. To provide context to the discussion, each civilization will briefly be introduced. Dating roughly 500 BCE, the Harappan civilization was a unique complex…

Angelou, Maya. Interview by Oprah Winfrey. OWN. N.d. Television. Maya Angelou was a full time professor at Wake Forest University, a bestselling author of many books, and was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She talks about how to stand up to racism with courage. She explains that it takes time and practice to gain courage. She strongly believes pejorative language is inacceptable and should not be tolerated because of the power of words. This is from an interview with Oprah Winfrey and…

Student Name: Mahayelea Maya Geographical Setting: What continent? What Landforms? What important Places? The Mayans settled in Mesoamerica. They lived in southern and northern Guatemala. In the Northern part of Guatemala it is full of mountain ranges, filled with minerals, and has a dry cool climate. In the southern part of Guatemala has the places Belize and Yucatan. In Yucatan the climate was dry and hot. Hot humid rainforests covered the southern area of guatemala and it had plenty of…