USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -A vast, 2, 000-year-old Maya site in Guatemala that was hidden by a rainforest has been found by researchers. The site encompassed a web of nearly 1, 000 urban settlements.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Originating in the Yucatán around 2600 B.C., they rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, northern Belize and western Honduras.

Detailed explanation-3: -The ancient Maya lived deep within the tropical rainforest, which was a source of food, medicine and building materials. Between 2400 and 2000 BCE, small groups began to regularly plant fields in the jungle, increasingly switching to crops for subsistence.

Detailed explanation-4: -In the past, tropical rainforests and surrounding areas supported great civilizations like the Mayas, Incas, and Aztecs that developed complex societies and made important contributions to science.

Detailed explanation-5: -After the Amazon, Mesoamerica’s Maya Forest is the largest remaining tropical rainforest in the Americas. The 13.3-million-acre forest stretches across Belize, northern Guatemala and through Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.