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You're watching FreeSchool! Hundreds, even thousands, of years ago, before Europeans came to explore and conquer, the Maya ruled in Mesoamerica. One of the most powerful civilizations ever to exist in what is now Central America, the Maya created huge stone temples and pyramids, elaborate artwork, and a complex system of heiroglyphics that puzzled academics for centuries. Despite these achievements, the Maya never unified and formed an empire under a single leader: instead, many small city-states, each ruled by its own king, shared a common culture to make up the Maya civilization. The Maya people worshiped nature gods - gods of the sun, the moon, rain, and corn. ing to the Popol Vuh, a book that contains the legends of the Maya, the gods began by creating the earth and the sky. Next they made the animals, the birds and the flying creatures. There was just one problem: the animals could not speak to worship the gods. So, the gods decided to make humans. The first humans were made out o