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What is Mesoamerica and its connection with Maya civilization?
The Maya civilization developed within the Mesoamerican cultural area, which covers a region that spreads from northern Mexico southwards into Central America.
What was the Maya civilization culture like in Mesoamerica?
The Mesoamerican area gave rise to a series of cultural developments that included complex societies, agriculture, cities, monumental architecture, writing, and calendrical systems.
Is there any other unique features of Maya civilization culture besides the rise to a series of cultural developments?
The set of traits shared by Mesoamerican cultures also included astronomical knowledge, blood and human sacrifice, and a cosmovision that viewed the world as divided into four divisions.
What were the four divisions that Maya civilization viewed the world divided into?
What did the Maya civilization do in Mesoamerica?
By 6000 BC, the early inhabitants of Mesoamerica were experimenting with the domestication of plants, a process that eventually led to the establishment of sedentary agricultural societies.
What types of plants did the Maya civilization grow in Mesoamerica?
Did Mesoamericans have any technological advances?
All Mesoamerican cultures used Stone Age technology; after c. 1000 AD copper, silver and gold were worked.
What language did Mesoamericans speak?
Mesoamerica is linguistically diverse, with most languages falling within a small number of language families—the major families are Mayan, Mixe–Zoquean, Otomanguean, and Uto-Aztecan.

Question: What role did the Maya play?
Self-contained rewrite: What role did Maya civilization play in Mesoamerica?