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Mayan
Mayan Ma"yan, a. 1. Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d. 2. Of or pertaining to the Mayas.

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- Look up Mayan or mayan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Mayan most commonly refers to: Maya peoples, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern...
- The Mayan languages form a language family spoken in Mesoamerica, both in the south of Mexico and northern Central America. Mayan languages are spoken...
- Mayan (stylized as MaYaN) is a Dutch symphonic death metal band founded by vocalist Mark Jansen, guitarist Frank Schiphorst, and keyboardist Jack Driessen...
- The Diary of Ma Yan: The Struggles and Hopes of a Chinese School Girl (马燕日记) is the published diary of Ma Yan (马燕), a Chinese schoolgirl from a small village...
- Spanish conquest of the Maya in the 16th and 17th centuries. Though modern Mayan languages are almost entirely written using the Latin alphabet rather than...
- well over 6 million individuals, speak more than twenty-eight surviving Mayan languages, and reside in nearly the same area as their ancestors. The Archaic...
- Best of Ayreon Live. She also sang lead vocals in several songs of the MaYan album Quarterpast and in Avalon's Angels of the Apocalypse. She is the older...
- Mayan or Maya mythology is part in of Mesoamerican mythology and comprises all of the Maya tales in which personified forces of nature, deities, and the...
- Sharer & Traxler 2006, p.1. "Pre-Hispanic Town of Uxmal". UNESCO. "Lost Mayan city found in Mexico jungle by accident". www.bbc.com. Retrieved 2024-10-29...
- insurgency and began a campaign of m**** killings and disappearances of Mayan peasants. While m****acres of indigenous peasants had occurred earlier in...