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mayans also grew beans, squash, avocados, pears, sweet potato's, guava, chili peppers, papayas and tomatoes. Mayans used a farming technique called milpa,also known as the slash and burn technique.the Mayans would burn down the land that was covered and the cut down the remaining foliage. This technique posed a problem because the land wouldn't last very long. The Mayans cycled through different areas to keep a stable farming.
New research, however, has actually recorded evidence of a variety of intensive agricultural systems that were utilized by the Maya during the Classic period. In the Vaca Plateau, for example, archaeologists have mapped thousands of stone-walled terraces (some more than 6 feet high and 100 yards long) around every major site (like Caracol) in the region.