Had the most impressive buildings of the Maya period.
What is Calakmul
200
The second generation state located in Guatemala.
What is Dos Pilas?
200
Clustered in northern Guatemala, and consist of much larger cities that contain huge temples.
What are maximal chiefdoms?
300
Had a three level hierarchy.
What is a maximal chiefdom?
300
Communicating with ancesteors/supernaturals, establishing reciprocity, and attributing life to inanimate things.
What are the principles of Mayan Religion
300
The main sign of Calakmul.
What is the serpent's head?
300
The state with 6-8000 people.
What is Dos Pilas?
300
This was used to name their offspring.
What is the 260 day calender?
400
Reason some men were buried in a seated position and bundled.
What is rank?
400
Ahmen
What is a diviner?
400
Had a network of subordinate communities by it’s 11th and 12th rulers.
What is Tikal?
400
Ambitious programs of building, build lots of buildings/temples/pyramids.
What is one way for usurpers to legitimize themselves?
400
Ah kin mai
What is the high priest?
500
The chiefdom of the early middle formative (900 BC) that was distinctly Mayan.
What is Cahal Pech?
500
Caves, rocks, moon, sun, temple, lightning, and thunder all have this as believed by the Mayas.
What has an inner spirit?
500
The ways Calakmul maintained its hierarchies.
What is military force, installing loyal rulers at subordinate sites, establishing marriage alliances, and enforcing that the rulers of subordinate sites come back to capital to participate in certain rites at the capital.
500
A major Maya civilization center during the Classic period of Mesoamerican chronology.