nd 400,000-500,000 square kilometres in all, and is referred to collectively as El Mundo Maya or in English "The Maya World". To the north, the Maya region is bounded by the Isthmus of Tehuantepec and the southern border would be marked by the Lempa River in western El-Salvadore and the Ulua River in western Honduras. This area can be divided into the Lowlands, the Highlands, and the Pacific Coastal plains. The lowlands have sometimes been subdivided into northern and southern sub-sections of each. The lowlands were heavily forested. The southern lowland zone had higher annual rainfalls and supported a tropical forest with fertile although fragile soil, while the northern lowland zone had more of a scrub forest sitting on an underlying limestone shelf. Rainwater is absorbed rapidly with few standing water sources as compared to the south. At its highest elevation the Tacana Volcano it is 4,030 meters above sea level with temperatures between 5 and 12 degrees Celsius, At its lowest points showing the average temperature of 18 degrees Celsius and as high as 31 degrees Celsius in the summer season. The southern highland zone was mountainous and had several active volcanoes that provided stone for the Maya to use as tools.
             The Mayans are not one tribe or group but rather they were twenty-eight 28 ethnic groups whose names we have based on their languages, they are the Yucatec, Itza, Lacandon, Mopan, Chorti, Chontal, Chol, Cholti, Tzotzil, Tzeltal, Coxoh, Tojolabal, Chuj, Jacaltec, Kanhobal, Mocho, Tuzantec, Mam, Aguacateca, Ixil, Quiche, Tzutuhil, Cakchiquel, Uspantec, Achi, Pocomam, Pocomchi, and Kekchi. Though all these areas may have had differing languages, cultures and origins, they all shared certain characteristics that allow us to view them as a single culture.
             The Mayan hieroglyphics system of writing stands as one of the most remarkable displays of the advancements of a civilization in the history of the Americas due to i...