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Nobles and priests were actually the only people who lived in the cities. They mostly spent their time in small dark rooms in their palaces. The Maya did not have metal, they only had tools made from stone, wood, bone or shell and they didn't even have the wheel yet. So the Maya had trouble building their temples, palaces and pyramids.

The Maya had sweat houses to cure diseases and also had ball courts. They had normal houses as well for the ordinary people. The use of plaster and burnt lime was very important to the Mayan architecture. The rooms are usually thin and rectangular shaped with hardly any windows. The decorations in rooms mostly have masks, human figures and geometric forms. The cap of the room which is constructed of concrete is gently rounded or sloped to drain off the heavy tropical rains.

The difference between Mayan pyramids and Egyptian pyramids is that the Mayan ones had flat tops, they're formed in steps and supported buildings on the top. The buildings were usually temples.

The tools that the Maya used to build these amazing pyramids were stones for things such as axes and chisel and they used flint and obsidian for scraping, polishing and smoothing out plaster.

Great wide roads ran between important cities and were one to three meters higher than the ground around them.

The roads were made from stone which was covered with lime cement.They were dead straight for miles. They were made by ordinary people and made for them to walk along. This was because the Mayas had not invented the wheel nor did they have horses or pack animals so they had to carry their luggage and goods themselves.