The Mayan civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization which extended across present-day Guatemala, the Yucatan Peninsula, Belize, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador. The Maya civilization lasted about 3,000 years and featured a written language, architecture, a well-ordered social class system, agriculture, art, the development of a calendar, mathematics, trade and a well-developed religious system. They were skilled as farmers, weavers, and potters. There are around thirty different indigenous Mayan languages although most people spoke Spanish also. …
