Compare And Contrast Mayan City And Urban Life

Essay #2 A very age question has approached me in this short essay, city life or Suburban Life? This is the question I with this essay as I compare life in Teotihuacan neighborhoods with the apartments, which is essentially city life, and life in a typical Maya city neighborhood, or also rural life. Each type of living has very different living conditions, advantages, and disadvantages. This short essay will take a closer look at both. First, I will examine Teotihuacan neighborhoods in terms of their living conditions, and how they function as more of a city lifestyle approach. Teotihuacan had a massively packed dense apartment complex style of living. This meant that everyone was very close together with one another maybe

Maya cities saw a very low number of houses within a typical city which would leave the people the room for food production from small fields as various types of gardens. These houses were very like that of a suburban home in the 1950s, so in this rural area you were afforded a decent amount of privacy within this city. This also allowed for a more domestic lifestyle for the residents which would typically lead of the father, let’s say he is a farmer, working his field with the mother and children doing various chores around the house and weaving baskets etc.… Due to the nature of how living was within these rural areas, they did not hide social inequality very well, and the more elites would have bigger, more lavish homes. Life in the rural areas was also not that different from living outside of the walls of the rural area or the wild. This meant that living in the rural area did not have a type of allure that a big city like Teo had, with the difference being that within this rural area there was a little more protection than living out in the wild. This however led to a more of a community developing as while these areas were crowded sure, they were not as crowded as city life. This led to a more face-to-face knowledge of the people around out as well again forming more of a community type living. The sanitation was ok here mainly because since they were more spread out than in a

One of the big reasons is the lack of privacy and overall space within a big city. If I were to imagine it, I would think that space is very limited which can be constricting in a way. Now, I wouldn’t want a big, lavish house like some elites if it was going to be empty, but a moderate amount of both space and privacy. Another big reason would be both the overall sanitation and health issues that you would face within a city vs a rural city like one of Maya. Living in a city is great though however if I don’t live very long enough to enjoy life, why would I want to live in a place with poor sanitation and health. Also as a rural farmer, being in poor health wouldn’t allow me to do my job correctly as well. Also with the bad amount of food provisioning within a city. Not being able to eat very well would also contribute to poor health as well. While I could not deny living within a very grandeurs city with a great nightlife and a very multicultural life, the open space of being in a rural area, like a Maya city would seem to outweigh that of city life, where you could life lavishly, but not be around long enough to truly enjoy