USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -The three Maya groups in Belize are the Yucatec, Mopan, and Q’eqchi’ Maya. The Yucatec originated from Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico and arrived in Belize in the mid-nineteenth century as refugees from the Guerra de Castes (’Caste War’). They now reside in the Corozal, Orange Walk, and Cayo Districts.

Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -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.