Compare And Contrast Gupta India And Mayan Civilizations

The vast classical civilizations of the Maya and Indians have paved the way for the current world. Despite residing in different time periods, their influence has resonated throughout the ages. While the classical civilizations of the Maya and Mauryan and Gupta India were alike in that they both had a clear cut social organization due to the specialization of occupations in their societies. They differed in the economic and political collapse of their civilizations due to the fact that the downfall of the Maya was mainly due to the effects of nature, which then caused conflicts between city-states and the downfall of Mauryan and Gupta India was a result of the weak successors, internal political conflicts, and foreign invasions and that the political geography of …show more content…
The Mayan civilizations were distributed into city-states, which are independent cities that have their own governments that are completely separate from other surrounding countries. The Mayan city-states can be compared to the city-states of Ancient Greece. One of the most powerful city-states in the history of the Mayan civilization was Tikal. In fact, they had a peak population of about 70,000 to 90,000 and even had some influence on the city-state of Teotihuacan. On the other hand, Mauryan and Gupta India was organized into a unified empire instead of city-states like the Mayans due to the efforts of Chandragupta Maurya who established a central government during the time of the Mauryan empire and Chandragupta I during the Gupta empire. The centralized government allowed for the feeling of unity and wholeness throughout India. Although the city-states of the Mayan civilization also interacted with each other, they were not completely grouped into one unit like the united empires of Mauryan and Gupta