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This article is about the minor civilization in Age of Empires III. For other uses, see Maya.

The Maya are a Native American tribe featured in Age of Empires III. Like all natives, they can be allied with by building a Trading Post or Tambo at their Trading Post site.

Units[]

Technologies[]

Age Technology Cost Effect
Maya Cotton Armor 250 wood
250 coin
Hand infantry and foot archer hit points +20%
Maya Calendar 120 wood
120 coin
Villager gather work rate for hunted animals, Mill, Farm, Rice Paddy (food), Field (food), and Hacienda (food) +10%; Hacienda auto gather work rate for food +10%
Maya Pyramids 400 wood
400 coin
Delivers 1 American Citadel Travois

Strategy[]

Maya technologies focus on boosting an allied economy and improving hand infantry in combat.

The Maya are a minor civilization useful for several strategies. The Maya Calendar technology improves hunting and agriculture gathering by 10%, which helps economically both early and in the middle and end of the game. It is especially strong for civilizations with good hunting capacity (Lakota) or agriculture (the Aztecs and Japanese). Maya Cotton Armor gives hand infantry and foot archers +20% hit points, which is useful for civilizations with strong hand infantry or foot archers.

The Maya Holcan Javelineer is a ranged infantry unit with a fast Rate of Fire and hand attack bonus damage against cavalry, and the Healer is a support unit. This being in especially useful for Asian civilizations that do not have their own healing units. The Maya Pyramid provides the American Citadel, a defensive structure that, although is not as powerful as a European Fort, provides defense of an important area. The Maya cover the three basic strategies (boom, turtle, and rush).

In-game dialogue[]

Maya units speak the Kสผicheสผ language, a Mesoamerican language which is spoken in the present-day Guatemala and, as with other modern Mayan languages, evolved from the original Proto-Mayan language.

Changelog[]

Knights of the Mediterranean[]

History[]

โ€œ 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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Gallery[]

Civilizations in Age of Empires III
African Ethiopians ยท Hausa
AmericanFederal American: Mexicans ยท United States
Native American: Aztecs ยท Haudenosaunee (formerly Iroquois) ยท Inca ยท Lakota (formerly Sioux)
Asian Chinese ยท Indians ยท Japanese
European British ยท Dutch ยท French ยท Germans ยท Italians ยท Maltese ยท Ottomans ยท Portuguese ยท Russians ยท Spanish ยท Swedes
Minor
African Akan ยท Berbers ยท Somalis ยท Sudanese ยท Yoruba
Asian Bhakti Temple ยท Jesuit Mission ยท Shaolin Temple ยท Sufi Mosque ยท Tengri Shrine ยท Udasi Temple ยท Zen Temple
European House of Bourbon ยท House of Habsburg ยท House of Hanover ยท House of Jagiellon ยท House of Oldenburg ยท House of Phanar ยท House of Vasa ยท House of Wettin ยท House of Wittelsbach
Native American Apache ยท Aztecs ยท Carib ยท Cherokee ยท Cheyenne ยท Comanche ยท Cree ยท Haudenosaunee ยท Huron ยท Klamath ยท Lakota ยท Lenape ยท Mapuche ยท Maya ยท Navajo ยท Nootka ยท Quechua (formerly Incas) ยท Seminole ยท Tupi ยท Zapotec
Other
Campaign Black Family Estate ยท British ยท Circle of Ossus ยท John Black's Mercenaries ยท Knights of St. John ยท United States
Historical Battles Barbary Pirates ยท Canadians ยท Ethiopians ยท Moroccans ยท Somalians ยท Tatars ยท United States
Cut Denmark ยท Poland