Maya History

Travel back to a thousand years before the Aztecs, when volcanos obliterated cities, impelling the survivors to find a place of safety. These survivors built the largest city in the Americas and one of the world’s top seven megacities. They erected the highest pyramid in Mexico and apartment compounds for 125,000 people. Teotihuacan stood out as Mesoamerica’s leading metropolis from the third to sixth century CE. Its multi-ethnic population developed coast-to-coast trade, extending south to Central America.

A lyrical work of narrative nonfiction that portrays how the largest domestic oil discovery in half a century transformed a forgotten corner of the American West into a crucible of breakneck capitalism. As North Dakota became the nation's second-largest oil producer, Maya Rao set out in steel-toe boots to join a wave of drifters, dreamers, entrepreneurs, and criminals. With an eye for the dark, absurd, and humorous, Rao fearlessly immersed herself in their world to chronicle this modern-day gold rush, from its heady beginnings to OPEC's price war against the US oil industry.

Escrito durante el siglo XVI y conservadas por el fraile Francisco Ximénez, las historias contenidas en el Popol Vuh (en lengua quiché, «libro de la comunidad») han trascendido el tiempo y han dado al mundo una luz sobre las costumbres mayas y el pueblo quiché, hoy Guatemala. Pero el Popol Vuh va más allá de las narraciones míticas y contiene valiosas enseñanzas y lecciones morales.

Elaine, What Happened? A History follows the thirty year life of Elaine who was born without eyes and had other deformities. Besides trying to find out what caused her defects, it is a history of the changes that took place in the medical field, in public education and most notably in society's customs and attitudes regarding people with disabilities.

Have you ever wondered what the Mayan people did? How they lived? How their empire grew? Then this is the right book for you. In this book, we'll go over the most important discoveries about the Mayans, the Central American inhabitants that were in the region hundreds of years before the journey to the New World by European settlers and conquistadores.

Migration, terrorism, the tensions between global capitalism and nationalism, the promise and peril of a technological and communications revolution: these forces shaped the life and work of Joseph Conrad at the dawn of the 20th century. In this brilliant new interpretation of one of the great voices in modern literature, Maya Jasanoff reveals Conrad as a prophet of globalization as we recognize it today.

In 2012 especially there was a renewed focus on the Mayans, whose advanced calendar led many to speculate the world would end on the same date the Mayan calendar ends. The focus on the doomsday scenario, however, has overshadowed the Mayans' true contributions to astronomy, language, sports, and art.

What is a bravey? For Alexi Pappas, it means to chase the goals that seem scary. She has not shied away from the challenge. In this honest and hopeful memoir written especially for young listeners, Alexi Pappas details key moments that had profound effects on her life, including the loss of her mother when she was just four years old, to her formative years at school where she felt different from her peers, and into her young adult life, including the incredible year she experienced in 2016 when she made her Olympic debut as a distance runner.

Introducing Secrets of Mesoamerica, a must-listen for anyone who wants to know everything there is to learn about the rich history of this significant era of our history. With all of the commodities and knowledge available today, it is almost impossible to fathom how civilizations survived before us. But not only did the Mesoamericans survive, they also thrived.

Largely forgotten for centuries, the ancient Maya were incredible. Their cities across Central and South America featured astonishing pyramids and palaces, while they were also successful farmers and highly creative artists. The Maya were the first people in the Americas to learn how to read and write, and they invented things like rubber, chocolate and chewing gum. They had a deep understanding of astronomy, mathematics and timekeeping, though they also had some horrible, bloodthirsty traditions such as making human sacrifices.

One evening, against the wishes of his frightened wife, young Puritan Goodman Brown embarks on a mysterious errand that leads him through the skeletal woods to a Black Mass being held by his fellow townsmen. His life is forever changed by contact with the evil congregation. And his horror is amplified by the attendance of one participant in whom he had placed his greatest trust.

Das erste Volk, dem es gelang, sich zu einer Kultur zu entwickeln, waren die Olmeken. Aber warum sind sie bisher relativ unbekannt geblieben, versteckt in den langen, dunklen Korridoren der vergessenen Geschichte? Die Wahrheit ist, dass nur wenige Historiker bereit sind, sich der Aufgabe zu stellen, die wahre Geschichte der Olmeken zu entschlüsseln. Vier faszinierende Manuskripte in einem Buch: Die Olmeken, Die Kultur der Zapoteken, Die Geschichte der Maya, Geschichte der Azteken.

El 21 de diciembre de 2012 llegará el fin del mundo. O, al menos, eso es lo que algunos afirman que profetizaron los mayas. Muchos han teorizado con que la Tierra quedará asolada por el paso de devastadores tsunamis, erupciones volcánicas y terremotos de gran magnitud. Otros tantos creen en la existencia de señales apocalípticas que vienen ocurriendo desde hace meses. Las empresas negocian con productos especialmente diseñados para el trágico evento, incluso han surgido decenas de sectas y grupos que esperan el apocalipsis.

Die Maya - Pyramiden in der Neuen Welt; Imperium Konstantins; Goldenes Indien; Sagenhaftes Japan...

In March 1942, twenty-five-year-old kindergarten teacher Magda Hellinger and nearly a thousand other young Slovakian women were deported to Poland on the second transportation of Jewish people sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. The women were told they'd be working at a shoe factory. At Auschwitz the SS soon discovered that by putting Jewish prisoners in charge of the day-to-day running of the accommodation blocks, camp administration and workforces, they could both reduce the number of guards required and deflect the distrust of the prisoner population away from themselves.

La cultura maya es una de las civilizaciones prehispánicas más importantes de América, ubicada en la parte sureste de México, Guatemala, Belice, Honduras y El Salvador. Restos de imponentes ciudades y centros ceremoniales, vestigios de sus leyendas, mitos, descubrimientos y observaciones, son la evidencia de una cultura evolucionada que buscaba una explicación de las cosas buenas y malas de la vida.

América Central y del Sur estuvieron llenas de grandes civilizaciones. Este libro analiza cinco de las más famosas: los olmecas, los toltecas, los aztecas, los incas y los mayas. Estas civilizaciones aparecieron por primera vez en América Central y del Sur hace más de mil años, y algunos descendientes de estas tribus siguen viviendo en estas regiones en la actualidad.

Wie haben die Maya gelebt? Ihre großartigen Paläste, Tempel und Inschriften können uns darauf eine Antwort geben. Doch lange Zeit waren sie im Regenwald verborgen. Bis sich im 19. Jahrhundert neugierige Abenteurer daran machten, ihre Geheimnisse zu lüften. Aber nicht nur darüber erzählt Wigald Boning. Auch über die Entdeckung des Kakaos, der ihm sehr gut schmeckt, und über den großen Herrscher Montezuma und die Nasca-Linien.

Viaja miles de años atrás en el tiempo hasta las civilizaciones más antiguas del mundo. Te sorprenderá descubrir las increíbles transformaciones que experimentó la humanidad y cómo floreció cada antigua civilización. Aprende más sobre la cultura, los logros y las religiones de algunas de las civilizaciones más famosas del mundo.

Este libro también es la historia de la selva, una historia poblada con los rostos de los conquistadores, aventureros, exploradores, colonizadores, arqueólogos, insurgentes, monteros, iluminados y místicos que vincularon sus vidas en algún momento con la Selva Lacandona.