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What continent? What Land forms? What important Places? The Mayan civilization was located in what is currently Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan peninsula which is part of present day Mexico. They had highlands and lowlands. Their highlands were located in southern Guatemala. And their lowlands were located in Guatemala, Belize, and the Yucatan Peninsula. Some of their cities were Copan, Tikal, Palenque, Bonampak, and Chichen Itza. Political (Leadership, citizenship,…

once he heard of a man on the next-door island who was shipwrecked near Jamaica in 1511. Geronimo de Aguilar would become Cortés’ personal translator who could communicate with the Mayan people. However, as he continued his journey down the tip of Yucatan, he stopped at Potonchan. The natives greeted him with food and a gold mask. With giving Cortés the mask, they told him without hesitation, “We have no more gold – you will be killed if you do not leave” (Wood 26). Cortés didn’t believe the…

leadership myself I thought that a leader had to be a really strong and courageous person. Although those characteristics are true, many other factors go into it as well. This past summer I was chosen to be a small group leader for a mission trip to Yucatan, Mexico with my church youth group. As a small group leader I had many responsibilities for this mission trip. The moment we left church till the moment we got back, these kids were under my supervision and care. I had to be responsible for…

sculptures. The Mayans also had many accomplishments in mathematics and astronomy, which were recorded in hieroglyphics. Around 900 the Mayans disappeared from the southern lowlands of Guatemala and later The Mayans reappeared in the North on the Yucatan Peninsula and took over that area until the Spanish Conquest but The Maynas still make up most of the population in the region in today’s era. When The Mayans started to become more modern and abandon their old ways it became known as…

From the study done by Clifton Dixxon on the effects of hurricane in the Yucatan Peninsula, we can see some of the affects that might occur in Southwestern Mexico. The damage from Hurricane Patricia destroyed several thousand acres of cropland, and this could lead to money and food problems in the future. It is already reported that fruit sales to the US are going to drop due to the hurricane. In the Yucatan many had to get labor jobs to rebuild the resorts, but there aren’t as many tourists…

Mayans The Mayan civilization is in the eastern third of Mesoamerica, mostly in the yucatan peninsula. There were many dangerous animals were the Mayans lived, some of them were jaguars, crocodiles, Bull sharks and many species of poisonous shakes. The mayans had to avoid these animals when they were hunting for food in the forests. The highlands and the lowlands of the Mayan territory had much different climates. The lowlands were cooler and drier than the highlands and the highlands had more…

areas on western Europe, where longer summers and shorter winters led to plentiful harvests and population growth, evidence of severe droughts were found in modern-day California, violent climatic swings took place in Northern China, and in southern Yucatan, arid…

The Aztecs, as they are known, were a group of people who originated as a nomadic tribe in northern Mexico. Although the origins of the Aztecs are uncertain, they "are believed to begun as a northern tribe of hunter-gatherers whose name came from that of their homeland, Aztlan (“White Land”)." The Aztecs were also known as the Tenochca derived from their capital city, Tenochtitlan, and the Mexica. The Aztec empire was built in 1428 under leader Itzcoatl, forming a three-way alliance with the…

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 fertile soil which made farming there excellent. Political (Leadership, citizenship, decision-making institutions) For…

Hernan Cortes was born on December 2, 1485 in Medellin, Castile, Spain. His family was an upper class family, although his parents weren't wealthy. He was born of Spanish nobility. His parents' names were Martin Cortes and Catalina Pizarro Altamira no. At the age of fourteen Cortes`s parents sent to study law at the University of Salamanca. He wasn't happy at school, too restless to follow the rules. He did learn a little Latin, and became good at writing. After two years (failing his course),…