Mayan Values Exemplified in Modern Society

Many mayan values are exemplified in modern society today. As I have learned from my classmates presentations there is a lot of examples of Mayans in modern society. We take a lot of their findings and ideas and we took from it and expanded on it. It was basically the foundation of our life. For example, ball games. The Mayans played a game that is very similar to basketball. The game had a hoop, a court, stands, and a team. Another example is food. Mexican food and chocolate is some things from Mayan that really stand out to me in the modern society. I know that a lot of people like chocolate and a lot of people like Mexican food. There are many different Mexican restaurants and many varieties of chocolate. This shows how we expanded on the Mayans findings. We also have architecture, religion, the calendar. It is hard to imagine if the Mayans weren't in existence on this world, because if they weren't here we might not have had all these great things in our society.