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[|​see more pictures here]home page We are a group photographers going to take photos of Chichen Itza. Chichen Itza is in Mexico. Chichen Itza means a mouth full of Itza. Chichen Itza was closed becuase of swine flu in Mexico.Chichen Itza is possibly the most famous temple city of the Mayas, a pre-Columbian civilization that lived in presant day Central America. Chichen Itza was made between A.D.750 to 1200.At the city's heart lies the Temple of Kukulkan witch rises to a height of 79 feet(24 meters).Each of its four sides has 91 steps-one step for each day of the year,with the 365th day resented by the platform on the top.

[|See the location here!] Chichen Itza's history as a major political center in the northern Yucatán is a long one, stretching over a swath of turbulent times from the Classic period well into the Post-Classic. Towards the beginning of the 7th century CE, during the beginning of the Late Classic, this Maya agricultural region saw increasing population density and the construction of some permanent structures, including the Puuc-styled Las Monjas (Nunnery) complex. It was during the 9th century, however, that the settlement began to turn into a city, and by the early 10th century during the Terminal Classic Chichen Itza was a regional powerhouse. As this was happening, major Classic-period centers to the south in the central Maya lowlands, such as Tikal and Palenque, were undergoing the profound social and demographic shift popularly known as the Classic Maya Collapse. While these cities did not cease to function as major centers overnight, nor were they all abandoned at the same time, a gradual exodus of people trickled out from the densely-populated central lowland area to other cities, such as those along the Gulf coasts and in the ancient Maya heartland in the volcanic highlands to the south.The region that received the greatest population expansion during the Terminal Classic period, however, are the northern lowlands of the Yucatán, where the largest and most powerful city was unquestionably Chichen Itza. The reasons for this are many and are discussed (in often conflicting terms) by different ethnohistorical sources, such as the Maya-penned Spanish conquest-period Book of Chilam Balam, and subsequent archaeological studies. [|See Pictures Here!]

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