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This article is about the Age of Empires III minor civilization. For the Age of Empires II: The Conquerors civilization, see Maya. |
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The Maya are a minor Native American civilization featured in Age of Empires III.
Overview
The Maya are available as allies on the Orinoco, Sonora, and Yucatán maps. Once a Trading Post is built at their camp, a player can recruit Mayan Holcan Spearmen and research available upgrades.
Upgrades
Maya upgrades focus on boosting an allied economy and improving all hand infantry in combat.
Maya cotton armor (Discovery Age): All hand infantry gain 20% hit points.
Cost:300 wood, 300 coin
Maya calendar (Discovery Age): Inreases villager gather rate for food by 10%.
Cost: 120 wood, 120 coin
Maya Warrior Societies (Fortress Age): Maya attack and HP raised by 25%.
Cost: 200 wood, 150 coin
Maya Champions (Industrial Age): Maya attack and hitpoints raised by 40%.
Cost: 400 wood, 300 coin
Usefulness
- Maya cotton armor is especially useful with civilizations featuring strong hand infantry units.
- The Spanish have many cards boosting their hand infantry in combat, combined with the unction aura the upgrade can prove very powerful for their Rodeleros, pikemen, and holcan spearman mercenary shipments.
- The Dutch Halberdier can benefit greatly from this upgrade.
- The Japanese Samurai can use this upgrade to great effect due to their very high anti-building damage in the Colonial Age.
- All native tribes can only be upgraded to Legendary/Exalted status at the Town Center or Capitol, they can be upgraded to Elite/Disciplined or Champion/Honored for free through some Home City shipments.
- Civilizations can remove the upgrade gold costs, or cut the upgrade costs in half depending on their home city cards.
In-game dialogue
Mayan language has evolved into many separate branches of the original proto-Mayan.
- Zah
- Tabis
- Outzca
- Zaba
- Cayashé (Attack)
- Cocaya (Attack)
History
| “ | The Maya civilization arose in the Yucatan Peninsula of Central America, beginning around 1500 BCE. They were heavily influenced by the Olmec civilization of Mexico, which had developed a system of writing, a calendar, and a complex religion. Population growth was spurred by advances in growing and irrigating crops of corn, beans, squash, and peppers. The period from 300 to 900 CE is known as the Classic Period of the Maya culture, which featured the construction of very impressive cities, advanced writing, astronomy, arithmetic, a complex political system of competing city states, and the Maya ball game pok-a-tok. They were able to measure very precisely the orbits of planets. They went through cycles of building, tearing down, and rebuilding on the foundations of the past. Although their remaining structures are of bare stone today, they were apparently once painted in very bright colors. Beginning in 750 CE the Maya civilization went into decline for reasons not clear today. One opinion is that the population had expanded during a period of good climate, and trees had been widely removed to farm increasingly marginal land. Ecological changes led to massive crop failures, starvation, and war over decreasing food resources. By 830 construction had ceased and the cities were gradually abandoned. The Maya moved to smaller agricultural villages, and their great cities disappeared into the enveloping tropical forests. | ” |
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