Mayan Civilizationin a sentence
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Post-Columbian Mayans almost totally adopted Roman Catholicism.
Mayans = members of an American Indian civilization of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala that reached its peak between AD 300 and 900
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Some Mayan languages are still spoken today.
Mayan = an American Indian civilization of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala that reached its peak between AD 300 and 900
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Mayans lived here in the so-called New World before the Europeans discovered it.
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Mayans = people of the American Indian civilization of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala that reached its peak between AD 300 and 900
- It reminds Connor of the Mayan game of pokatok—something he learned about in history class.† (source)
- We went to The Idaho for the usual fare at the Saturday matinee—a double feature: Treasure of the Golden Condor, wherein Cornel Wilde is a dashing eighteenth-century Frenchman seeking hidden Mayan riches in Guatemala; and Drum Beat, wherein Alan Ladd is a cowboy and Audrey Dalton is an Indian.† (source)
- I must have looked like a Mayan warrior.† (source)
- The storage facility —open twenty-four hours—was like a Mayan burial complex, save for an empty-eyed clerk watching TV at the front desk.† (source)
- Earth's supposed expiration date, the end of the Mayan calendar."† (source)
- They pick their way down a broad corridor, excusing themselves every inch of the way as they step over little Mayan encampments and Buddhist shrines and white trash stoned on Vertigo, Apple Pie, Fuzzy Buzzy, Narthex, Mustard, and the like.† (source)
- I looked at Sergio's bearded face, at Ofelia's concerned eyes, at Chente good ol' Chente, calm as ever — and Skin, with a flowery Indian blouse from Mexico which made her look like what I imagined a Mayan princess to be.† (source)
- "Yes, unnervingly soon …. if you're a believer in Mayan math."† (source)
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- Partners In Health had found a donor to pay for a mental health project there: the disinterment and proper reburial of Mayan Indians who had been slaughtered by the Guatemalan army and dumped in mass graves.† (source)
- "Mayan spiritual chants," he said.† (source)
- One of the new arrivals from the FCI was Morena, a Spanish woman who looked like a deranged Mayan princess.† (source)
- Albert told them about the ancient Mayans.† (source)
- She spoke of the ancient medicines of other tribes, the Aztecas, Mayas, and even of those in the old, old country, the Moors.† (source)
- Let's talk about the Mayan ruins.† (source)
- Level Three's a killer—they got us right before we solved the Mayan puzzle.† (source)
- But as I grew older and explored my own starker regions more assiduously, I kept stumbling across pyramids, Mayan campfires, the rubble of Huns—civilizations that had no right of access to the terrain of a Southern boy's soul.† (source)
- I look at civilizations that have collapsed: Rome, Greece, China, the Aztecs, the Mayas.† (source)
- It was originally domesticated by the Mayans.† (source)
- The game was a lot like basketball, except that the losers were sacrificed to the Mayan gods.† (source)
- They had to have been Mayan songs, not Spanish.† (source)
- The Mayan chants, from the first day he'd given me the ride.† (source)
- Nobody, not even a Mayan, could say they weren't.† (source)
- We are Mayan people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages.† (source)
- From the early Hebrews who made burnt offerings at the Temple, to the Mayans who beheaded humans atop the pyramids of Chichén Itzá, to Jesus Christ, who offered his body on the cross, the ancients understood God's requirement for sacrifice.† (source)
- And Mayan ruins.† (source)
- Every sort of prisoner is represented; sad-looking middle-aged upper-class white men, their wire-rim glasses sometimes askew or broken; proud cholos looking vaguely Mayan and covered in gang markings; white women with bleached-out hair and very bad orthodontia; skinhead types with swastika tattoos on their faces; young black men with their hair bushed out because they had been forced to undo their cornrows; a skinny white father-and-son pair, obvious because they were the spitting…† (source)
- "Mayan spiritual chants," he repeated.† (source)
- We drove along with just the Mayan chants for a few minutes, long enough for me to actually start to get used to them.† (source)
- Estevan took off his shirt and lay back against the front of the boat, his hands clasped behind his head, exposing his smooth Mayan chest to the sun.† (source)
- Do Cherokees look like Mayans?† (source)
- What's Mayan, exactly?† (source)
- The Mayan version of the world-end is represented in an illustration covering the last page of the Dresden Codex.† (source)
- World-end: Rain Serpent and Tiger-claw Goddess (ink on tree-bark paper, Mayan, Central America, c. A.D. 1200-1250). gush from the sun and moon.† (source)
- Young Maize God (carved stone, Mayan, Honduras, c. A.D. 680-750). cowherds they had had an interesting tour, then ate their suppers, and went to bed.† (source)
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