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Maritime trade goods of the Maya. The extensive trade networks of the Ancient Maya contributed largely to the success of their civilization spanning three millennia. Maya royal control and the wide distribution of foreign and domestic commodities for both population sustenance and social affluence are hallmarks of the Maya visible throughout much of the iconography found in the archaeological ...
La Unión was a paddle-wheel steamer used from 1855 to 1861 to transport Mayans enslaved during the War of the Castes from Mexico to Cuba. In September 1861, she sank near the port of Sisal, Yucatán, when her boiler exploded while she was on the way to Cuba.
On 22 October, in the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Maya was assigned to Sentai-4 with sister ships Atago, Takao and ChÅkai together with the battleships Yamato, Musashi and Nagato. At 05:33 on 23 October, the fleet was attacked in the Palawan Passage by a pair of US submarines, Maya ' s sister-ships Atago and Takao were torpedoed by the submarine USS ...
The identification of a long-sunken Mayan slave ship is providing an extraordinary history lesson to researchers and archaeologists alike. Excavators in Mexico have confirmed that a shipwreck ...
The ships could not put in close to the shore due to the coastal shallows. However, they could see a Maya city some two leagues inland. The following morning, ten large canoes rowed out to meet the Spanish ships, and over thirty Maya boarded the vessels and mixed freely with the Spaniards. [93] The following day the conquistadors put ashore.
The Maya relied on a strong middle class of skilled and semi-skilled workers and artisans which produced both commodities and specialized goods. [1] Governing this middle class was a smaller class of specially educated merchant governors who would direct regional economies based upon simple supply and demand analysis, and place mass orders for other regions.
As for anti-ballistic missiles, these ships are equipped with the SM-3 Block IA, IB, and IIA. The SM-3 Block IIA is the latest variant of the SM-3 missiles, being re-designed drastically to defend broader areas. [3] [4] The ship will use Type 17 ship-to-ship missiles (SSM-2) [7] in addition to an existing Type 90 (SSM-1B). [4]
Guerrero and Aguilar are central figures in the historical novel Maya Lord by John Coe Robbins which was published in the U.S. in 2011. "The Confessions of Gonzalo Guerrero", by John Reisinger, was published in 2015, and is an historical novel written from Guerrero's point of view, exploring his motivations and conflicts, as well as his ...