{"id":8493,"date":"2023-04-13T01:45:20","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=8493"},"modified":"2025-03-29T03:21:32","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T21:51:32","slug":"chichen-itza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/chichen-itza\/","title":{"rendered":"Chichen Itza"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in news?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The circular piece, measuring just over 32 centimetres in diameter and weighing 40 kilograms displays <strong>hieroglyphic writing<\/strong> surrounding two players standing next to a ball that was discovered on this site.<\/p>\n<h3>About Chichen Itza:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It was one of the greatest Mayan centres of <strong>the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This city was established during the Classic period close to two natural cavities (cenotes or chenes), which gave the town its name.<\/li>\n<li>Mayan people ruled for over 1,000 years and left their mark on the city.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is thought to have been a <strong>religious, military, political, and commercial centre<\/strong> that at its peak would have been home to 35,000 people.<\/li>\n<li>It was designated a <strong>UNESCO World Heritage<\/strong> site in 1988.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key facts about the Yucatan peninsula<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a Northeastern projection of Central America which is <strong>lying between the Gulf of Mexico<\/strong> to the west and north and the <strong>Caribbean Sea<\/strong> to the east.<\/li>\n<li>The peninsula is almost wholly composed of beds of coralline and porous <strong>limestone rocks.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a peninsula?<\/h3>\n<p>A peninsula is a landform that is surrounded by water on three sides but connected to a larger landmass on one side. Peninsulas can vary in size, ranging from small pieces of land jutting out into a body of water to large landmasses that extend for hundreds of miles.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/americas\/mexicos-chichen-itza-archaeologists-discover-mayan-scoreboard-2023-04-11\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>At Mexico&#8217;s Chichen Itza, archaeologists discover Mayan scoreboard<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chichen Itza   was one of the greatest Mayan centres of the Yucat\u00e1n peninsula.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":8494,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}