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Podcast: Everything Everywhere Daily: History, Science, Geography, & More
Episode: The Maya Civilization
Description: Centuries before the arrival of Europeans, one of the greatest civilizations in the Americas rose and fell. They left behind them a rich legacy of roads and construction. They had a system of writing as well as a highly developed system of mathematics and astronomy. However, this advanced civilization suddenly ended. The people who made up the civilization never left, but their cultural and political institutions fell apart, and many of their cities were abandoned. Learn more about the Maya Civilization, its rise, and its fall on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily.<...