Chichén Itzá
The Ancients
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Chichen Itzah: The Late Classic and the Post-Classic Period
Chichen Itzah was just one of many different urban centers in the Maya world at that time. Chichen had a footprint in the late classic but there's a very small footprint before that point so when you think of the Maya of Palerque and Tikal and stuff those people had been going on for 250 to 750 years. But Chichen's late they're starting around the time those sites are getting weaker and then it really comes on later. The things that are the most threatened are the ones that are further away from the ceremonial core because people today need places to live, farm and have businesses.
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