Mayan

The Maya lived in subtropical Mesoamerica in parts of the countries that are now Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Honduras, and the Yucatan peninsula area of Mexico. The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations due to the high degree of interaction and cultural diffusion that characterized the region. Advances such as writing, epigraphy, calendar and some of arts and architectures gave influence around near countries. Maya influence can be detected from Honduras, Guatemala, and Northern El Salvador and to as far as central Mexico. The ancient Maya were united by a shared religious system and language, although there are actually many Mayan languages. While the political system was also shared among the Maya, each chiefdom had its own ruler. Battles between cities and protective alliances were frequent. Mayan religion was characterized by the worship of nature gods (especially the gods of sun, rain and corn), a priestly class, the importance of astronomy and astrology, rituals of human sacrifice, and the building of elaborate pyramidical temples. Some aspects of Mayan religion survive today among the Mayan Indians of Mexico and Central America, who practice a combination of traditional religion and Roman Catholicism. Human sacrifice usually associated with Maya religion in that people are sacrificed to the gods. The Maya creation myth involved a sacrifice made by the gods that had to be re-enacted by humans from time to time. One of the occasions of human sacrifice was the ball game. It is not known how often sacrifice of the loser ended the game, but the game itself was often deadly. The rules were that the ball couldn't touch the ground and the players couldn't hit the ball with their hands and/or feet. The team that lost was killed and used a sacrifice. They created rubber balls that came in soccer and baseball size. You had to get the ball into a small gold ring. This bull game was one of Maya’s accomplishments that were a matter of life or death, literally. Maya made a lot of accomplishments including bull game, because they were very intelligent. First of all they had a number line that used the number 0 and also made pyramids with no metal tools.  And they could use soil smartly and knew how to crop such as corn and beans. They developed mathematics (including zero) and grew maize. They also made own calendar primarily.