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An Introduction to the Classic Period Maya I ~*Roots*~
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roots of Maya civilization, the size and location of their territories, more
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Maya territory covered an estimated 125,000 square miles, stretching all the way from modern day Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras to the Mexican states of Chiapas, Campeche, Tabasco and Quintana Roo. From the Pacific Ocean in the west, to the Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean in the east, the Classic Maya landscape encompassed everything from the most dry, barren, inhospitable areas, to steamy jungle rain forests, sprawling out to include the Sierra Madre de Guatemala Mountain Range and its its thirty-three Pacific coast volcanoes. Great cities like Tikal could have been inhabited by more than 100,000 people. Population estimates are as large as three to five million in the southern lowlands alone.
