IMPORTANCE OF MAYAS IN OUR SOCIETY
First we have take into account that Maya civilization was located in Mesoamerica, called nowadays Centro America and México, Maya civilization left important contributions to our society in 21 century; they develop the Maya calendars an a numeric system both based on eye observation of moon, stars or planets movement. But why is Maya civilization so relevant to our society and technology?
This ancient civilization began to observed the sky and everything present on it; develop to that way the Astronomy, after too many periods of time to development of agronomy, member roles of families and traditions, Mayas began to felt interested to develop a way or method that will be useful to divide time in days, months or years creating in that way the Maya Calendars, that it was composed by a system of distinct calendars of almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and some modern Maya communities in Guatemala. One of the systems is called El Civil or Haab, it takes 365 days and is used nowadays, second system is El sagrado or Tzolkin that takes 260 days and the last one and longer is the Long Count that has 144.000 days.
The influence of these even on the world we live today is remarkable, Can you just imagine how could be our life style if we don’t use a system to organize our projects to future or don’t remember meaningful events like this?. Even Aztec civilization also develop a calendar, researches affirm that Maya calendars are the best – documented and most completely understood, also Mayas was a big influence in Mesoamerica, because some of those traditions and believes are maintain nowadays by thus future generations, to this reason is so relevant to us like Latin Americans because Mayas are our ancestors and we should maintain this legacy.
First we have take into account that Maya civilization was located in Mesoamerica, called nowadays Centro America and México, Maya civilization left important contributions to our society in 21 century; they develop the Maya calendars an a numeric system both based on eye observation of moon, stars or planets movement. But why is Maya civilization so relevant to our society and technology?
This ancient civilization began to observed the sky and everything present on it; develop to that way the Astronomy, after too many periods of time to development of agronomy, member roles of families and traditions, Mayas began to felt interested to develop a way or method that will be useful to divide time in days, months or years creating in that way the Maya Calendars, that it was composed by a system of distinct calendars of almanacs used by the Maya civilization of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica and some modern Maya communities in Guatemala. One of the systems is called El Civil or Haab, it takes 365 days and is used nowadays, second system is El sagrado or Tzolkin that takes 260 days and the last one and longer is the Long Count that has 144.000 days.The influence of these even on the world we live today is remarkable, Can you just imagine how could be our life style if we don’t use a system to organize our projects to future or don’t remember meaningful events like this?. Even Aztec civilization also develop a calendar, researches affirm that Maya calendars are the best – documented and most completely understood, also Mayas was a big influence in Mesoamerica, because some of those traditions and believes are maintain nowadays by thus future generations, to this reason is so relevant to us like Latin Americans because Mayas are our ancestors and we should maintain this legacy.
On the other hand, we can’t forget other inventions of Mayas that supported the development of Maya calendar; these inventions are mathematics with their vigesimal system and concept of zero, and the innumerable eye observations that evolve to Astronomy. Even other civilizations also develop similar systems, Maya civilization has too many unknown facts that make to people still have interested to make researches about them.
Finally, we can be conscious of responsibility to our backs, we have to promote, respect and research about this magnificent ancient civilization that give us so many ways to understand the world and permit that we live makes more easily every day.
BY: JENNIFER JIMENEZ JIMENEZ
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