Mayan Classic City States 250 AD to 900 AD

[Lion.Kanzen]

Classic period

"Caana" at Caracol. It stands at 42 meters (140 feet) high.

Altar 13 at Caracol. AD 830

The Classic period (c. AD 250900) was one of the peak of large-scale construction and urbanism, the recording of monumental inscriptions, and significant intellectual and artistic development, particularly in the southern lowland regions.[9]

The people developed an agriculturally intensive, city-centered civilization consisting of numerous independent city-states some subservient to others.[8] This includes the well-known cities of Caracol, Tikal, Palenque, Copán, Xunantunich and Calakmul, but also the lesser known Lamanai, Dos Pilas, Cahal Pech, Uaxactun, Altun Ha, and Bonampak, among others. The Early Classic settlement distribution in the northern Maya lowlands is not as clearly known as the southern zone, but does include a number of population centers, such as Oxkintok, Chunchucmil, and the early occupation of Uxmal.

During this period the Maya population numbered in the millions. They created a multitude of kingdoms and small empires, built monumental palaces and temples, engaged in highly developed ceremonies, and developed an elaborate hieroglyphic writing system.[10]

The social basis of this exuberant civilization was a large political and economic intersocietal network (world system) extending throughout the Maya region and beyond to the wider Mesoamerican world. The political, economic, and culturally dominant core Maya units of the Classic Maya world system were located in the central lowlands, while its corresponding dependent or peripheral Maya units were found along the margins of the southern highland and northern lowland areas. But as in all world systems, the Maya core centers shifted through time, starting out during Preclassic times in the southern highlands, moving to the central lowlands during the Classic period, and finally shifting to the northern peninsula during the Postclassic period. In this Maya world system, the semi-peripheral (mediational) units generally took the form of trade and commercial centers.[11]

The most notable monuments are the stepped pyramids they built in their religious centers and the accompanying palaces of their rulers. The palace at Cancuén is the largest in the Maya area, but the site has no pyramids. Other important archaeological remains include the carved stone slabs usually called stelae (the Maya called them tetun, or "tree-stones"), which depict rulers along with hieroglyphic texts describing their genealogy, military victories, and other accomplishments.[12]

The Maya civilization participated in long distance trade with many of the other Mesoamerican cultures, including Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, and other groups in central and gulf-coast Mexico. In addition, they had trade and exchanges with more distant, non-Mesoamerican groups, for example the Taínos of the Caribbean islands. Archeologists have found gold from Panama in the Sacred Cenote of Chichen Itza.[13] Important trade goods included cacao, salt, seashells, jade, and obsidian.

This is copan in my country

Edited May 19, 2014 by Lion.Kanzen

[Le Druide Gaulois]

I'd love to see the Maya join the game. In fact one of the most advanced civilizations would be a valuable addition

[Lion.Kanzen]

I'd love to see the Maya join the game. In fact one of the most advanced civilizations would be a valuable addition

yeah very exotic civilization.

[Lion.Kanzen]

Simple idea.

[Zoosant]

¿And Will You add the spaniard to beat them?  

[Lion.Kanzen]

18 hours ago, Zoosant said:

¿And Will You add the spaniard to beat them?  

In this mor ande other but, Spaniards only beat Mayan K'iche'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K'iche'_people

This Mayans are before the contact.

Edited July 27, 2018 by Lion.Kanzen

[Lion.Kanzen]

 

[astheroth]

As Lion Kanzen said , most of Maya cities were lost long time ago the spaniards came to America. This civilization won't have cavalry units for example, because the american horses were extinct after the Holocene period, so, I wonder myself how would be the mechanics of it hahahaa

Ps: I like the second temple,  awesome work

[Lion.Kanzen]

13 minutes ago, astheroth said:

 This civilization won't have cavalry units for example, because the american horses were extinct after the Holocene period, so, I wonder myself how would be the mechanics of it hahahaa

Ps: I like the second temple,  awesome work

im sure mostly of guys know that fact.

second temple isnt from the game.

[wowgetoffyourcellphone]

6 hours ago, astheroth said:

As Lion Kanzen said , most of Maya cities were lost long time ago the spaniards came to America. This civilization won't have cavalry units for example, because the american horses were extinct after the Holocene period, so, I wonder myself how would be the mechanics of it hahahaa

 

A challenge to balance, but a welcome one.