What You Probably Don’t Know About the Ancient Mayans

Published on January 18, 2018
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Farmer Joe

The main crops were maize (corn), beans, squash, avocados, chili peppers, pineapples, papayas, and cacao. Sounds delicious actually!

Farmer Joe

Farmer Joe

Slash And Burn

One of the most useful methods of agriculture cultivation was being used by the Mayas all the way back then. They would burn the earth where crops grew in order to allow fresh crops to grow over them. To this day, farmers still use this very successful method of farming.

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