Mayans
- Left behind great cities-ceremonial and trading centers
- Different types of buildings: pyramid-temples, platforms, arcaded halls, and palaces
- Surviving codices and carved monuments called stelae
- Lived in Mesoamerica
- History is divided into three periods: the Pre-Classic, Classic, and Post-Classic
- 400 BCE to the arrival of the Spanish in 1520 CE
- Pyramid-temples of Mesoamerica were surmounted by religious temples
- Believed that sacred buildings should be located at places of power
- Built using fairly simple and rustic tools made of stone
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