Did Egyptians and Mayans have in common?

The Mayans and Egyptians fit in with many ofuniv~rsal religious themes. Both had a form of polytheistic belief, they believed that the four cardinal directions had important meaning to the flow of life, their world was flat and they were the center of it, they depended on the gods and the gods depended on them.



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The real historical and archaeological record indicate that the beginning of Mayan civilization was around 1800 B.C. The Mayans history can be broken into three time periods: Pre-Classic: 1,000 B.C.E.-250 C.E. Classic: 250-900 C.E. Post-Classic: 900-1521 C.E. The Egyptians period were built between 2,589 and 2,505 BC.

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Mesoamerican peoples built pyramids from around 1000 B.C. up until the time of the Spanish conquest in the early 16th century. (Egyptian pyramids are much older than American ones; the earliest Egyptian pyramid, the Pyramid of Djoser, was built in the 27 century BC).

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The Mayans and Egyptians fit in with many ofuniv~rsal religious themes. Both had a form of polytheistic belief, they believed that the four cardinal directions had important meaning to the flow of life, their world was flat and they were the center of it, they depended on the gods and the gods depended on them.

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