The Mayas where not big empire builders, their cities coexisted independent in many ways from each other, tough they did have commerce trades and some disperse wars.

They occupied three separate areas of Mesoamerica (South, Central, and North), all tough many investigators don't consider the southern civilization as real Mayas; this is because they lack many of the characteristic Mayan traits. Some books even ignore this area all together as being associated with the Mayas.

On the other hand, since the Central and Northern areas are not separated by any natural barriers, they both flourished more or less together and both have all the characteristic Maya traits, like agricultural features, hieroglyphic writing, the long count with all it's complexities and others.

On this section you can find a brief summary of some of the mayor Maya cities.

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