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   ocr: 32 THE MAYAN CULTURE, Mayan WHICH EXISTED AS EARLY Stone( AS 1,500 B.C., DID NOT Carving al of a single empire, as once believed, but was a collection of consist independent city-states that alternately made war and traded with one another. This large, sculpted stone, weighing about five hundred pounds, comes from the Mayan city-state of Kabah, in what is now the Mexican State of Yucatan. It's one of a pair that once framed a temple door. Carved in the ninth century, the stone depicts a scene of conquest. The taller, standing figure is a warrior-priest who wears a helmet crowned with quetzal f ...