USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Unlike other scattered Indigenous populations of Mesoamerica, the Maya were centered in one geographical block covering all of the Yucatan Peninsula and modern-day Guatemala; Belize and parts of the Mexican states of Tabasco and Chiapas; and the western part of Honduras and El Salvador.

Detailed explanation-3: -Mayan civilization occupied much of the northwestern part of the isthmus of Central America, from Chiapas and Yucatán, now part of southern Mexico, through Guatemala, Honduras, Belize, and El Salvador and into Nicaragua. Maya people still live in the same region today.

Detailed explanation-4: -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.