Maya, civilisation/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Maya, civilisation.

Civilisation of the Maya, an indigenous people of the Yucatán Peninsula (Mesoamerica), who attained a relatively high civilisation in pre-European America, or the modern descendants of this people.