How many different versions of the Mayan Calendars are there, or if one of the calendars is more important than the other? III. The Mayans created many different versions of their Calendar. The Tzolkin, The Haab , and The Calendar Round, are just a few, but it is the Long Count Calendar that is the most important of all the Mayan Calendars. It is the most important because the scriptures of the Long Count Calendar suggest the “end of a world age”, also known as the
Now let us go back in time and uncover the origins of how the number 13 came to be associated with bad luck. Our journey starts in ancient Mesopotamia. King Hammurabi, sixth king of Babylon, wrote a set of laws, called Hammurabi’s Code, on a giant stone tablet, standing over 8 feet tall. However, after the tablet was recovered in 1991, the 13th law was missing. It was recorded on the tablet that the 13th law was missing because the number was considered evil and unlucky.
It was clumsy to memorize, especially since the scribe had to learn 1,500 symbols for 1,500 different words. (Contrast this with learning only 26 letters in the modern English version of the alphabet. At a Sumerian edubba, or tablet-school, it typically took a student twelve years to learn to write Sumerian in cuneiform.) The pictographs rapidly became more abstract by 2900 BCE. The number of symbols was reduced to 600 signs, which increasingly were phonological.
The Egyptians calendar revolved around the annual flooding of the Nile river which brought rich silt to the valley, and was the beginning of the agricultural season for the Egyptians. In the Classical Maya period the Maya created a sophisticated calendar system of overlapping cycles that included multiple cycles, a two hundred and sixty day calendar, a three hundred and sixty five day calendar and a few more that I have not listed. The cycles restarted every fifty two years, which in my opinions could of lead to the inevitable collapse of the Maya. Both Egyptian and Mayan cultures were Polytheistic in their religions with rulers that represented Gods on Earth. The ancient Egyptians revolved heavily around Earth and Sun gods, which they believed controlled the vital flooding of the Nile.
Gary encountered ethical issues when the proposal was submitted that the material could withstand up to 155 degrees which is a stretch because the material could only withstand up to 130 degrees, using STI’s money to test new materials without informing them, withholding information about the age life of the new material and not sending out the technical data ahead of time to the clients so they could analyze it before the meeting allowed the clients to question Gary’s integrity. Gary encountered potential legal and contractual issues related to breach of contract due to the false information submitted in the proposal about the degrees the material to withstand and using STI money to text new materials without telling the clients. Additionally Gary did not communicate with his team or with the clients and was only able to focus on one task at a time. Gary did not utilize any project management tools or processes therefore he was unable to give proper oversight over the project. My recommendation to
2. About how many hieroglyphic symbols consisted in the Mayan writing? a. About 1,000 b. About 600 c. About 800 d. About 33 of the above.
Teotihuacan will be the trading, cultural, and religious center of Mesoamerica for several centuries. The Mayans built more than 80 ceremonial centers and other settlements from 300 to 900 C.E. The ceremonial centers had many temples, palaces, and pyramids
Mayan Civilization The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations due to the high degree of interaction and cultural diffusion that characterized the region. Advances such as writing, epigraphy, and the calendar did not originate with the Maya; however, their civilization fully developed them. Classic The Classic period witnessed the peak of large-scale construction and urbanism, the recording of monumental inscriptions, and a period of significant intellectual and artistic development, particularly in the southern lowland regions. They developed an agriculturally intensive, city-centered empire consisting of numerous independent city-states During this period the Mayas numbered in the millions, they created a multitude of kingdoms and small empires, built monumental palaces and temples, engaged in grandiose ceremonies, and developed an elaborate hieroglyphic writing system.
Of these the pyramids were very notable, according to archaeological evidence; it has been shown that the ancient Mayans began building their characteristic ceremonial structures, known as Mayan Pyramids or Pyramid-Temples, about 3,000 years back. Mayan pyramids, in fact, were built in a wide variety of forms to serve a wide variety of functions, apart from religious ones, according to the customs of each region as well as period. (New World Encyclopedia. Web. 03 Dec. 2009) They also built temples; the temples were impressive and decorated structures themselves.
THE MAYA INDIANS SETTLEMENT PATTERN According to William Claypole and John Robottom, in their book ‘Caribbean Story’, at the height of their civilization, the Maya Indians occupied 324,000 square kilometers of land which included the Mexican regions of the Yucatan Peninsula, Campeche and Tobasco, as well as the territory of Belize, Guatemala and the western edge of Honduras. Robert Greenwood and Shirley Hamber in their book ‘Amerindians to Africans’ placed the first civilization of the Maya Indians at around 2000 Bc. The authors of this book also mentioned the decline of the Maya civilization after AD 900. They claim that it emerged 300 years later as a modified form of Mayan civilization. Greenwood and Hamber suggested three reasons for the decline in the Maya civilization.