All 8 Uses of
Mayan Civilization
in
The Bean Trees
- We are Mayan people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages.†
Chpt 14.
- We are Mayan people; we speak twenty-two different Mayan languages.†
Chpt 14.
- What's Mayan, exactly?†
Chpt 14.
- Mayans lived here in the so-called New World before the Europeans discovered it.
Chpt 14. *Mayans = people of the American Indian civilization of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala that reached its peak between AD 300 and 900
- They had to have been Mayan songs, not Spanish.†
Chpt 14.
- Do Cherokees look like Mayans?†
Chpt 14.
- Nobody, not even a Mayan, could say they weren't.†
Chpt 14.
- 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.†
Chpt 15.
Definition:
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(Mayan Civilization) an American Indian civilization of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala that reached its peak between AD 300 and 900; characterized by outstanding architecture, pottery, and astronomy