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The
commerce was an important activity, between old the
Mayans. The commercial routes were established to transport
products as it hemstitches, rubber, pens, skins of jaguar,
tobacco and honey; as well as shells, dry fish and to
per them coming from the coast towards the center of
Mexico and to high plateaus of Chiapas, Guatemala, El
Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama.
The commerce was an activity taken outside its borders
by retailers and the products were transported using
enslaved, taking products through ways and even by sea
in great canoes. By regulating, the commerce became
by means of the interchange or exchange, of diverse
products, although also the grains of cacao to currency
way were used.
Around the year 300 D.C. the city of Teotihuacan I get
to be the greater power in Mexico and had an incredible
impact in the commerce of the Mayan world. Teotihuacán
had an immense network of commerce, which well was used
by the Mayan town to commercialize its Mayan products
Los of high earth commercialized with obsidian, ground
stone, jade, pens of quetzal and copal. The Mayans of
low earth, commercialized with, skin of jaguar, stone
of pedernal(que was used to produce spark rubbing one
against another one) (chert), salt, balche, the honey,
the dry fish and meat smoky.
Important
routes of commerce by sea existed, in fact, the Mayans
developed a marine tradition that I take them from the
gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean and the islands of Honduras.
The Mayans also excavated channels to increase their
mobility by the commerce using canoes including navigation
by rivers.
In the middle of anuses 800, a Mayan group, known like
the Mayan Putun, emigrated to the state of Yucatan,
coming from the coastal region of the Gulf of Mexico
(Tabasco). They were soldiers and retailers without
equal in the Mayan area. They got to be excellent marine
retailers, moving products around the peninsula and
beyond using canoes, these were able to travel to great
distances being taken the best thing, in fact Cristóbal
Colon document to have at sight resemblance canoe outside
the coasts of Honduras in the 1502 year.
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