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Civil War Task Force
1,645 wordsTask Force Montagua: New Horizons II "And that's when my consciousness was born" In the early part of 1999 Guatemala was hit with both a hurricane and an earthquake. The United States government agreed to activate troops to be sent to Guatemala and several of its neighbors. My unit, being Military Police, was sent to provide force protection for all American service members working in and around Guatemala. I will provide some information on Guatemala and then provide a detailed account of my mis...
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Population Of Guatemala Cabrera Regime One
487 wordsThe first fishing and farming villages first emerged around 2000 BC near the shores of Guatemala and then in 1000 BC the Mayans started to arrive in the Peten area. The Mayas developed many things and one of them was the number 0. They also calculated the year more accurately then the Europeans. The Mayan empire was not unified and the highest point of Mayan civilization was between the forth and seventh centuries. They abandoned their cities in Guatemala and moved northward to the Yucatan Penin...
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Gilgamesh Epic Earths Surface
1,150 wordsLike dragonflies their [dead bodies] have filled the river. Like a raft they have moved to the edge [of the boat]. Like a raft they have moved to a river bank (flood-myth. com, 3 / 15 / 00). Whether the above is fact, fiction, myth, or legend it appears that all civilizations have a strong fascination with The Deluge. Bible believers feel that it was an act of God, who intern wanted to cleanse the earth of immoral people and evildoers. Chosen survivors, for example Noah, as well as present day C...
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Temple Of The Warriors In Chichen Itza Mexico
1,375 wordsThe Temple of the Warriors, also known as Temple de los Guerreros, was supposedly built by the Itza civilization between the tenth and the twelfth century in the ancient city of Chichen Itza, Mexico. (See figure 1) Chichen Itza is located in the Mexican lowlands. The Itza supposedly occupied Chichen Itza at two different times, the first being from 495 A. D. to 692 A. D. and the second being from 948 A. D. to 1204 A. D. The temple was built in the second occupation of Chichen Itza (Vargas, 1). T...
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Social Protest Revolutionary Party
977 wordsPresident Clinton recently visited Mexico. While there, he met with PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) president Ernesto Zedillo. The PRI is the political party in power. It has been in power for over 60 years and has never lost a presidential election. Is the PRI the true expression of the democratic will of the people of Mexico, or a totalitarian dictatorship? In 1968 Mexican students protested the PRI government and army. Over 300 students were murdered. On January 1 st 1994, a group of ...
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21 St Century Tourism Industry
1,064 wordsQuintana Roo, Mexico has become an internationally acclaimed tourist development area over the past six years. This may be a difficult concept to grasp considering the states economic condition at the end of the 20 th, and the first decade of the 21 st century. The current status of a tourism haven was not easily accomplished. It took many years of cooperative tourism planning amongst the state, national government officials, and most importantly, the local communities of the areas being develop...
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Tourism Industry Natural Environment
1,073 words... ions discard them after their cheap labor was exploited during the development process, only to fall victim to these corporations bringing in their own skilled and educated workforce. In 2010, local citizens from the communities of Akumal, Coba, Tulum and a few other cities in the Quintana Roo region, grouped together to stage a series of protests aimed at national tourism bodies, multi-national corporations and organizations that were continuing to develop new attractions in these communiti...
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Grolier Electronic Publishing Grolier Multimedia
1,421 wordsThe Mayans believe that Mother Earth was a gigantic monster. It was an alligator, toad, and a turtle combined. Above her was a sky with a layer for each planet and spheres of movement for the sun and the moon. Below her was the underworld where heavenly bodies passed when out of sight. All around her were the spirits of rain and thunder. The deities of the food plants and animals attended her. All nature was alive and it was constantly dying and being reborn (Burland 1771). The Mayans are Americ...
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Banana Plantation Motagua Basin Quirigua
712 wordsOne of the last lowland Mayan cities to collapse, existing well into the 9 th century, Quirigua, lies today in the still grasses of the Motagua Basin. This 1, 200 years old Mayan city is the focus of the article. The ruins of Quirigua are found amidst a banana plantation established at the turn of the century by the United Fruit Company. Some of the executives of the United Fruit Co. were interested in archaeology and decided to keep the central plaza from being plowed over. The surrounding smal...
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Religious Beliefs Social Structure
785 wordsThe Ancient Mayan Civilization was built upon a rigid social structure based on their religious beliefs. They used a caste social structure in which divisions were based on wealth, inherited rank, privilege, profession, or occupation. Their beliefs were based on the fact that nature elements had the power to either help or harm. The Ancient Mayans used their social structure and beliefs to shape their daily lives. The Maya were a very religious people. They believed in many gods. All events cent...
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An Overview Of The Ancient Mayan Empire
665 wordsThe Mayan Empire was one of the most innovative and interesting civilizations. It was an ancient civilization that was one of the most advanced and innovative ones. They inhabited the Yucatan peninsula and the empire lasted for about 3500 years ending around the year 1500 AD. It is considered the greatest civilization among the original cultures of the western hemisphere. The empire was located in what is now known as Central America. They lived in the area that is now Belize, Honduras, Mexico, ...
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Francisco De Montejo North And West Yucatan
606 wordsThe Yucatan Peninsula in Central America separates the Gulf of Mexico from the Caribbean Sea. Covering about 73, 000 square miles, and mostly in southeastern Mexico. It comprises the states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo, Mexico; Belize; and part of Peten, Guatemala. Merida and Campeche, Mexico and Belize City, Belize are the chief cities of the Yucatan. The peninsula is largely a low, flat, limestone tableland rising to 150 meters in the south. To the north and west the plain continues ...
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The Mayan And Julian Calendar
813 wordsThe Mayan and Julian Calendar The Mayan calendar, in its full glory, is probably the most complicated calendar based on integer arithmetic that has ever existed. While lunar and lunisolar calendars do exist that are very complex, most of them are based on observation, as in starting a month when the moon is in a particular stage, or on floating point calculations that for all practical purposes simply replace such observation. The Maya did not have algebra, but they had an enormous advantage ove...
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Place Value July 1997
1,578 words... 20 exp 3) + (0 x 20 exp 2) + (0 x 20) + (0 x 1) = 8000 Mayan 1000 is (1 x (18 x 20 exp 2) ) + (0 x (18 x 20) ) + (0 x 20) + (0 x 1) = 7200 The Mayan culture was a viable culture, however primitive, and it might have gone on to greatness in modern times if it had survived the European onslaught. The Europeans brought Smallpox from Europe to the Mayan territory in what is now Music. This decimated the population so that there are few descendants today. We can speculate that they simply never n...
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Indigenous Roots Myths Facts And Appropriation
1,448 wordsIndigenous Roots: Myths, Facts and Appropriation The serious investigation of indigenous roots was initiated in 11 th century. As a result Chicano historical scholarship appeared. It paid great attention to the ancient roots among Mexicans. Acknowledge of indigenous roots and geography, including former Mexican territory, have political and interpretive significance. First of all lets see who ancient Mexicans were. More then 3, 000 years ago there were several Mesoamerican civilizations such as ...
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Percent Of The Population Costa Rica
975 wordsThere Central America Central America There are 26 million people in Central America. Mestizos of mixed white and Indian heritage make up one half of the population. Indians, who make up one fifth, are concentrated in Guatemala. Whites are dominant in Costa Rica, and blacks and mulatto's in Panama and the Caribbean coastal plains. Central America extends for a distance of 1, 200 miles east southeastward from Mexico to South America. Its wider western half is occupied by the nations of Belize, Gu...
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Arranged In Layers Center Of Aztec Aztecs
576 wordsTOLTECS> The Toltecs were an Indian tribe who existed from 900 A. D. to 1200. They had a capital city of Toll, and their influences reached south to the Yucatan and Guatemala. They were a composite tribe of Nasa, Otomi, and Nonoalca. TheTolt ecs made huge stone columns decorated like totem poles. AZTECS> Aztecs were an American Indian people who rule an empire in Mexico during the 1400 s and early 1500 s. They practiced a religion that affected every part of their lives. To worship the Aztecs bu...
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Beam Of Light Chichen Itza
1,009 wordsNoor Al-Kuwari Chichen Itza, The Maya Deep within the jungle of Mexico and extending into the limestone shelf of the Yucatan peninsula lie the mysterious temple and pyramids of the Maya. While Europe was still in the midst of the dark ages, these amazing people had mapped the heavens, evolved the only true writing system native to the Americas and were masters of mathematics. They invented the calendars we use today. Across a huge jungle landscape with an amazing degree of architectural perfecti...
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Game Was Played Didn T
951 wordsThe mesoamerican ballgame, known as ullamaliztli or ollamalizitli in the native language Nahuatl, was played for many different reasons and by many different people. The game was played all over what is now Mexico. It was played by two different groups, the Aztecs and Mayans. There is a very extensive history of the ballgame. Ranging from how it was discovered to whom discovered it to different personal accounts. The people who played the game were Mayan and Aztec. Some of the courts they found ...
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End Of The World Southern California
968 wordsThe Y 2 K scare has gotten the entire world s attention with the radical headline that the world may come to an end. Although disputable, January 1 st 2000 or January 1 st 2001 is the deadline which electric appliances, computer databases, and many other necessities in our culture will cease to work. There is another date very little attention has been given, however. May 5 th 2000 has been speculated for many centuries as an important date for mankind. It is the day five of the nine planets and...
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