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-====== The Mayans ======
+====== The Maya ======
 ==== The heyday ====
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 The Maya did not know animal husbandry well. [([[https://www.pnas.org/content/115/14/3605|National Academy of Sciences]])]
+==== Crops ====
+The Maya mainly grew maize and beans. [([[https://lisbdnet.com/what-crops-did-the-mayans-grow/|Library & Information Science Network]])]
+==== The gods ====
+The gods the Maya believed in were personified by the forces of nature. [([[https://medcraveonline.com/JHAAS/the-mayan-gods-an-explanation-from-the-structures-of-thought.html|Medcrave Online]])]
+==== Afterlife ====
+The Mayans believed in an afterlife. [([[https://ambergriscaye.com/photogallery/181031.html|Ambergris Caye]])]
+==== The way of maize ====
+Corn was prepared in several ways to back then. For example, atole (a slurry similar to our porridge, to which pieces of fruit were added), posol (a semi-liquid dough), tamale (a vegetable, sometimes meat stew), tortillas (thin cakes baked on hot stones). [([[https://volt.utep.edu/epfoodvoices/images/Maize_in_Word_and_Image_compressed.pdf|Volt]])]
+==== Liquid chocolate ====
+Chocolate in liquid form was called the "royal drink" because only the aristocracy consumed this beverage. [([[https://www.godivachocolates.co.uk/history-of-chocolate|Godiva Chocolates]])]
+==== Cocoa currency ====
+Cocoa beans were currency at local Mayan markets. [([[https://legacychocolates.com/about-us/blog/articleid/59/money-grows-on-trees|Legacy Chocolates]])]
+==== Jade ====
+Wealthy Mayans were posthumously fashioned masks of jade. These were to give them an "eternal face". [([[https://theculturetrip.com/central-america/guatemala/articles/how-jade-became-more-valuable-than-gold-in-mayan-culture/|The Culture Trip]])]
+==== Sap tree ====
+The Maya cultivated the chickle (sap) tree, whose sap is now used to make chewing gum. [([[https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/species/sapodilla/|Rainforest Alliance]])]
+==== Weaponcraft ====
+The Maya made weapons primarily from flint and obsidian, a crystalline enamel of volcanic origin. [([[https://ctsciencecenter.org/blog/experiencing-maya-hidden-worlds-revealed-maya-weapons-warfare/|Connecticut Science Center]])]
+==== Fashion ====
+Appearance and fashion were important to the Maya. Women wore numerous ornaments and colorful and bright outfits. Men painted their bodies and, after marriage, entrained their bodies with tattoos. [([[https://www.archaeology.org/issues/387-2007/features/maya-clothing|Archaeology]])]
+==== Calendar ====
+The Mayan calendar, consisting of 360 days, was called the Haab. Additionally, they created a calendar with five days that they considered unlucky. They called this "unlucky" calendar the Uayeb. [([[https://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/exhibitions/civil/maya/mmc06eng.html|Canadian Museum of History]])]
+{{tag>history geography culture society}}

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