Maya ceevilisation

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Uxmal, Nunnery Quadrangle

The Maya is a Mesoamerican ceevilisation, notit for the anly kent fully developed written leid o the pre-Columbian Americas, as weel as for its airt, airchitectur, an mathematical an astronomical seestems. Initially established in the Pre-Classic period (c. 2000 BC tae AD 250), accordin tae the Mesoamerican chronology, mony Maya ceeties reached thair heichest state o development in the Clessic period (c. AD 250 tae 900), an conteena'd ootthrou the Post-Clessic period till the arrival o the Spaingie.