receives rainfall and contains tropical and subtropical areas with many lakes. The southern Mayan highlands are, in general, cool and covered with thick vegetation and volcanoes. SOMETHING ABOUT Guatemala. The history of the Mayan people is generally divided into five different periods: the Preclassic Era from 1800 BC to 250 AD, the Classic Era from 250 AD to 900 AD, the Postclassic Era from 900 to 1500 AD . AD, the colonial period from 1500 AD to 1800 AD, and the postcolonial period from 1821 to the present (CITE FRO...... middle of paper ......ve and maintain a stable environment so that people on could perhaps visit the site, but until then the entrance tunnel has been re-buried to keep out humidity, climate and possible looters. What makes the Mayan civilization so fascinating, it. t is that compared to other Mesoamerican civilizations, the Maya were The Maya were never really united in political terms. What they had was a series of city-states independent of each other, but united by. a similar culture. They were both small and large, but none ever grew large enough to unite the Maya into a single empire, the Mayan civilization can be defined by a series of growth. and decline, but what differentiates the Mayans (ADJ) from other Mesoamerican civilizations is that the Mayan people are still present and thriving today. Final sentence.

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