By a hereditary ruler known as an ajaw. Spanish sources describe even the largest Maya settlements as dispersed collections of dwellings grouped around the temples and palaces of the ruling dynasty and lesser nobles. None of the Classic Maya cities shows evidence of economic specialization and commerce of the scale of Aztec Tenochtitlan. Instead, Maya cities could be seen as enormous royal households, the locales of the administrative and ritual activities of the royal court.
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The created the stamp act that taxed colonist on all paper products that they used
During the nineteenth century, it was "India" that experienced a decrease in industrial production, since there industrial production had never been that high to begin with relative to many other nations.