The height of Maya civilization came at the time when the Saxons were fighting the Vikings in Britain, but it was the Mayan society that was in many ways more advanced with its large cities, sophisticated stone buildings, such as temples, and complicated systems for writing and counting. Although we might think that they were not very civilized because they believed the gods needed offerings of human sacrifice, in fact they were very knowledgeable about the stars and even had their own calendars. By the 1520s arrival of the Spanish forced the Mayans to give up their own gods and become Christian. Luckily the Spanish did not destroy all the wonderful ,recently discovered, architecture and artefacts that we can still see today, as testament to the Mayan’s skill.
