Geography
Choose the name that is not an Ancient Maya city
Tikal, Chichen Itza, Belmopan, Palenque
What is Belmopan?
True or False
There was only one Maya God
What is False?
The Ancient Maya writing system that used a series of signs and symbols was written using these _____
Mayan Hieroglyphs
The goal of this was to capture prisoners.
What is war?
What is farming?
What area did the Mayans posses?
Central/ Meso America
This happened to the losers of the Ancient Maya ball game.
What is sacrificed?
The Ancient Maya advanced the number system by included the concept of this number ____
What is zero?
This was done to criminals to embarrass them.
What is cut their hair?
The Ancient Maya used a complex form of this ___ to keep track of time.
What is a calendar?
What peninsula were the Mayans located on?
Yucatan Peninsula
What agricultural technique did the Mayans use?
Terracing or Terrace Farms
The main reason that the Ancient Maya civilization fell was because of this _____.
Droughts?
This stone was often used in Maya jewelry.
Jade or Obsidian
This is the northern most Ancient Maya city in the Yucatan peninsula.
What is Chichen Itza?
Sticks, stones and ____ were used to represents numbers in the Ancient Maya number system.
What are shells?
What crop was so valuable that the Mayans used it as money?
Cacao Beans
This canyon in northern Mexico is now a popular tourist destination.
What is Copper Canyon?
Glyphs that used pictures of sounds in the language put together were called _____.
What are syllabograms?
This person served as the judge during serious cases and offenses in the law.
Who is the king?
The folding book that recorded the history and culture of the Ancient Maya civilization was called ____
What is a codex?