Environment

-The city name translates to the Mayan language term "at the mouth of the well of the Itza"

-The Itza where a group of ethnic Mayans who occupied the city at the time

-The reference to the well explains the underground rivers that run beneath the region and were able to serve as a water source to the Mayan people (3) History.com Editors, “Chichen Itza,” History.com (A&E Television Networks, February 19, 2018), https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-americas/chichen-itza.

-The city was a commercial capital that resembled military through descriptive imagery such as eagles, jaguars, and feathered-serpents.(4)Mark Cartwright, “Chichen Itza,” World History Encyclopedia (World History Encyclopedia, April 17, 2021), https://www.worldhistory.org/Chichen_Itza/.

-It was one of the largest commercial cities to the Mayan people which nearly covered two square miles with commercial and residential living conditions that were all made out of stone.

-Chichen Itza was one of the few Mayan populations to resemble a "suburban" atmosphere