The Maya believed in many gods.
玛雅人信奉许多神。
What exactly is the Maya calendar about to do?
玛雅历法究竟想说明什么？
See an interactive map of the Maya civilization.
见玛雅文明的互动地图 。
The state of the Maya forest is a good illustration.
玛雅森林的状况是一个很好的实例。
Most of the Maya calendar intervals accumulate as multiples of 20.
玛雅历法的大多数时间间隔以20为倍数。
This is what the Maya intended.
这是玛雅人的意图。
It was a symbol of power in the Maya world.
在玛雅文化中，它是力量的象征。
First and foremost, the Maya are a case study in adaptation.
首先，玛雅是关于适应性的个案研究。
In the Maya creation myth, the first humans were made of maize dough.
在玛雅人的创世神话中，第一批人由玉米面团捏成。
Historically, the area was an important center of worship for the Maya.
在历史上，此地对玛雅人曾是一个非常重要的朝拜中心。
The Maya also understood the concept of zero, and wrote it like a shell.
玛雅人也懂得零的概念，书写形状就像贝壳一样。
Read about the rise and fall of the Maya in National Geographic magazine.
国家地理杂志《玛雅文明的兴起和衰落》。
The Maya created an efficient agricultural system, had deep astronomy knowledge.
玛雅人发明了高效的农业体系，有深厚的天文学知识。
But the film makes clear that the Maya were not necessarily predicting catastrophe.
但这部电影清楚地表明，玛雅人不一定是在预测灾难。
It also failed to come to fruition among the Maya, Incas and Aztecs of the Americas.
它也未能在美洲的玛雅、印加及阿兹台克文明中结出果实。
Tikal was one of the major cultural and population centers of the Maya civilization.
蒂卡尔是玛雅文明主要的文化和人口中心。
The Maya calendar was based on multiple cycles of time, and the baktun was one of them.
玛雅历法基于多个时间循环，“白克顿”是其中之一。
They were nearer the level of the ancient Sumerians or of the Maya civilization of America.
他们更接近古代苏美尔人的水平，或者是美洲玛雅文化的水平。
By the time the Spanish got to Chiapas in the 16th century, the Maya had abandoned the city.
当西班牙人16世纪来到恰帕斯的时候，玛雅人早已废弃了这座城市。
Babylonians, the Maya and other cultures developed complex systems for monitoring seasonal shifts.
古巴比伦、玛雅和其他文化都曾经发明复杂的系统用于监测季节变化。
Recent decades have brought new understanding of the Maya culture and its rise and fall over 2,000 years.
近几十年来，人们对玛雅文化及其过去2000年的兴衰史有了新的认识。
The first known cocoa plantations were established by the Maya in the lowlands of south Yucatan about 600 AD.
第一个为人所知的可可种植园，在约公元600年，由南部尤卡坦低地的马雅人所建立。
The Maya made several agricultural terraces (pictured above as wavy ripples) near Caracol's Ceiba Terminus area.
玛雅人在卡拉科尔的木棉林界附近开发了一些梯田（见上图如波浪涟漪的画面）。
At the city of Coba the Maya built dikes around a lake in order to raise its level and make their water supply more reliable.
在科巴市，玛雅人围绕着一个湖泊修建堤坝，以提高水位，使供水更加稳定可靠。
While the Inca used a ten-based system, many other cultures did not: the Maya, for example, used a base of 20, according to Quilter.
据奎尔特说，尽管印加人使用十进制，许多其他文化并非如此：例如玛雅人就是使用20进制。
Ten lesson plans—on topics ranging from the Maya language to the Maya creation myth—have been developed for the interactive expedition.
十个课程计划——主题从玛雅语言到玛雅创造神话——已经为互动探险开发。
The Maya heyday lasted from about A. D. 250 to 900, and their domain included what is now Guatemala as well as parts of Mexico and Belize.
玛雅的全盛时期从公元250年一直持续到900年，其势力范围包括今天的危地马拉和墨西哥与伯利兹的一部分。
The Maya heyday lasted from about A. D. 250 to 900, and their domain included what is now Guatemala as well as parts of Mexico and Belize.
玛雅的全盛时期从公元250年一直持续到900年，其势力范围包括今天的危地马拉和墨西哥与伯利兹的一部分。
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