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Cities in the jungle
One of the most remarkable
features of Maya civilization is to have succeeded, in an original architectural
style, to build towns of several tens of thousands inhabitants in full
tropical jungle.
The most important
cities of the traditional period (250 to 900 after J.-C.), are Tikal and
El Mirador in which pyramids reach 70 meters height, exceeding the summit
of the trees of the forest.
The other important
cities of this time are Palenque, Copán, Tonina, Bonampak.
After a still unexplained
decline of the civilization of the traditional period (until 900 after
J.-C.), the Mayas gave up the forest to found, under the influences of
the Tolteques came from North, a new civilization.
This one, established
primarily on the peninsula of Yucatan in Mexico. One can quote Chichen
Itza and Uxmal like principal cities of this period.
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