Economy Maya

Maya Economy.
The Economy Maya was determined by the following activities:
* Agriculture
* The Chase
* The Fishing
* The Trade
* Domestication of Animals
Agriculture:
The Mayaswere basically farmers, and its main crop was corn using the technique of “Rose" is currently used by Mayan peasants and assume that was what their ancestors used. The technique involves cutting thepink and burn mount preplant, in recent years has questioned this technique because it exhausts the soil and forces the farmer to move every two or three years in search of new lands, likewise, grewbeans, cocoa, yams, squash, pepper, avocado, cashew, guava, snuff and cotton.
Hunting and Fishing:
Also remained hunters and found in forests, mountains, coasts and shores of esters many animals suchas jaguars, deer, snakes, turtles, rabbits, monkeys using as instruments blowguns, bows, arrows and traps, hooks shells.
The Trade:
Because of marked differences presented Mayan different regions,natural resources were varied. As we said, for the basic needs of the population in each region was only partially self. No missing corn and beans in any city or nor wood and palms to build huts, butsome products were obtained only in certain geographic means. Hence the birth of an intense internal trade with in the global area of external trade with non-Maya peoples. They traded with caco itsmain product was leather goods, baskets, embroidery fabrics painted pottery, honey, wax, fish, deer, guns, etc. salt. This was done by land routes (using simple stone paths or roads) waterway (takingadvantage of the great rivers in their waterways and maritime stretches round the Yucatan Peninsula, from tabasco to Central America. Much of the trade effected by barter, especially local businesses,which were the same producers who were to exchange product. But some items were used as Currency: First the cocoa, then jade basins, certain red shells and bells later periods and flat copper...