Maya

Introduction

Maya mī´ə, Span. mä´yä [key], indigenous people of S Mexico and Central America, occupying an area comprising the Yucatán peninsula and much of the present state of Chiapas in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, parts of El Salvador, and extreme western Honduras. Speaking a group of closely related languages (with an outlier, Huastec, spoken in the Pánuco basin of Mexico), the population of Maya today is over 4 million.

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Introduction
Maya Prehistory
Colonial-Period Maya
Independence Period
The Twentieth Century
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Maya

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