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    The document summarizes the key economic activities of the Mayan civilization: 1) Trade was a major economic activity, with cities like Tikal and Topan serving as important trading hubs by land and sea. Goods traded included salt, obsidian, food, tools, luxury items like jade and gold. 2) Agriculture was key to their economy and culture. They used techniques like slash and burn to clear forest for fertile farmland to grow crops such as corn, beans, chili peppers, and tobacco. 3) Hunting supplemented their diet, using weapons like bows and knives to hunt animals such as rabbits, monkeys, and tapirs.

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    The document summarizes the key economic activities of the Mayan civilization: 1) Trade was a major economic activity, with cities like Tikal and Topan serving as important trading hubs by land and sea. Goods traded included salt, obsidian, food, tools, luxury items like jade and gold. 2) Agriculture was key to their economy and culture. They used techniques like slash and burn to clear forest for fertile farmland to grow crops such as corn, beans, chili peppers, and tobacco. 3) Hunting supplemented their diet, using weapons like bows and knives to hunt animals such as rabbits, monkeys, and tapirs.

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    Mayan Economic Activities

    Transféré par

    Giovanni Martin
    The document summarizes the key economic activities of the Mayan civilization: 1) Trade was a major economic activity, with cities like Tikal and Topan serving as important trading hubs by land and sea. Goods traded included salt, obsidian, food, tools, luxury items like jade and gold. 2) Agriculture was key to their economy and culture. They used techniques like slash and burn to clear forest for fertile farmland to grow crops such as corn, beans, chili peppers, and tobacco. 3) Hunting supplemented their diet, using weapons like bows and knives to hunt animals such as rabbits, monkeys, and tapirs.

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    GROUP MEMBERS

     Tahj Williams
     Giovani Martin
     Tashika
     Zooina
    MAYANS ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    INTRODUCTION

    This project consists of the mayans different economic


    activities that they did to satisfy their needs and build
    their civilization. This project also consists of visual
    aids showing the ways of life of the mayans in terms of
    their economic activities .
    THE MAYAN ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    TRADE
    Trading was a very important economic activity in the
    Mayan civilization. Cities such as Tikal and Topan
    where major trading hubs in the civilization. Besides
    the trade route on land , important maritime trade
    took place as well. The Mayans traded goods with each
    other and with other groups such as the Tainos and the
    Quechua.
    THE MAYANS ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    TRADE
     The items that where traded includes salt, obsidian ,
    foodstuff , clothing and tools which where subsistent
    items. Luxury items which where traded included jade
    ,gold , ceremics , jewelry and feather works. Trading
    boosted boosted the economy and allowed the Mayan
    people to develope into the most advanced civilization
    of their time.
    THE MAYANS ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    AGRICULTURE
    The Mayans’ economy depended heavily on agriculture
    as the main means of acquiring food and expand their
    culture. They practised different farming techniques to
    keep the land soil as fertile as possible. One of these
    techniques is slash and burn . In this process they
    cleared the forest and burnt the cut trees so they where
    able to further ensure the fertility of the newly cleared
    lands for the longest period of time possible.
    THE MAYAN ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    AGRICULTURE
    After these lands where cleared , the Mayans
    continued to cultivate crops such as corn , maize ,
    tomatoes , beans , chili peppers , papayas , bananas ,
    guava , tobacco and pumpkin.
    These crops where planted and reaped with different
    tools such as hoes and grinding tools.
    THE MAYAN ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    HUNTING
    hunting was also an important economic activity . In
    hunting , the Mayans uses various weapons to kill their
    preys are bows , daggers and knives. With these
    weapons they hunted animals such as rabbits , fishes ,
    ducks , quails , tapir , howler monkeys and spider
    monkeys just to name a few.
    THE MAYAN ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
     TRADE
    THE MAYANS ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
    AGRICULTURE
    THE MAYAN ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
     HUNTING
    THE MAYAN ECONOMIC
    ACTIVITIES
     CONCLUSION
    It can be concluded the the mayans economic activities
    where very similar to those of the other groups such as
    the kalinago and the taino , but somehow the mayans
    exelled more in agriculture and trading because they
    had better techniques and approaches when it came to
    trading and agriculture so this made their economy
    more successful than the rest of the groups.

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