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Brief History of the Maya Civilization.

The Mayan civilization arose in Mesoamerica around 250 AD, influenced by the culture and religion of the Olmecs. The Mayan urban culture flourished until about 900 AD but thrived in various places until the Spanish conquest.

During this first 650 years, which scholars call the Classic Period, the Mayan civilization comprised more than 40 sizeable cities spread across modern-day Mexico, Guatemala, and northern Belize.

CortezAt its peak, the total population may have reached 2 million people, most of whom lived in modern-day Guatemala. The cities have been mainly ceremonial centers, with most of the Maya living a rural, agricultural life around the towns.

Sometime after 900 AD, the Mayan culture declined dramatically, and most cities were abandoned. The latest scholarship attributes this decline to the loss of trade routes due to war.

The tremendous southern cities became depopulated, but the cities of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico (such as Chichén Itzá, Uxmal, and Mayapán) continued to thrive in the early part of the "Post-Classic Period" (900–1519). By the arrival of the Spanish in the early 16th century, however, most of the Maya were village-dwelling farmers.

The Spanish conquered the remaining Maya and converted (at least nominally) to Roman Catholicism. The present-day Mayan peoples are spread mainly across southern Mexico, with small numbers in Guatemala and Belize. They practice a religion that combines Roman Catholicism with Mayan cosmology, deities, and domestic rituals.

Doom's days have always been the staple of humanity. After dozens of failed Dooms Day predictions, the latest frenzy is the Maya calendar predicting the END of 2012 at 11.11.

2012 the myth, the facts.

On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years. This means that "whatever energy typically streams to Earth from the center of the Milky Way will indeed be disrupted on 12/21/12 at 11:11 p.m. Universal Time," Joseph writes.

The astronomer Philip Plait has stated very clearly that the Mayan calendar does not end in 2012 at all, that it is like the odometer on your car, as each section of the odometer reaches 9 and then clicks over to 0, the following number to it starts a new cycle so that when all the numbers again go 0 all the way across the odometer - the last digit will change from 1 to 2. The new cycle starts all over again.

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