History In The News 10/19 Response Paper

Daniel Contreras
History 117
Monday/Wednesday
12:50 - 2:15 pm
19 October 2011

Rediscovering the Mayans

Members and researchers from the United States National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration have recently begun to further explore the areas which the Maya used to occupy. As of late, scientists have encountered a question regarding the lifestyle of those Mayans that lived near the sea. Not much is known about these sea thriving people but their trade habits are widely recognized. The sea Mayans flourished for a few hundred years before the Spanish conquest that began the decrease of mesoamaericans. Current researchers are hopeful to discover any remaining materials from these trades such as canoes.

In this course we have discussed various mesoamerican tribes among them the Mayans. This article mentions the crops that the Mayans traded and even a little sentence about Christopher Columbus. It is a modern expedition of a past civilization and

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