Mapping it Out
Arts and Writing
Mathtastic
Star Gazing
Commerce
Planting & Harvesting
Mysteries
100
The body of water East of modern day country or Mexico.
What is the Gulf of Mexico
100
These are the artifacts that the Olmec are best known for.
What are the Great Stone Heads?
100
Ten is the base number system for Americans, while Mayans used this as their base for their number system.
What is twenty?
100
The science of studying the stars.
What is astronomy?
100
This system of exchange was used by Mayans instead of money.
What is bartering?
100
The Mayans used this very old practice while farming.
What is slash and burn?
100
The name of the largest Mayan city.
What is Tikal?
200
The capital of Mexico.
What is Mexico City?
200
Colorful Mayan glyphs were recorded in this specific kind of book.
What is a codex?
200
The number that a glyph of a shell represents.
What is zero?
200
In the city of Chiche'n Itza ancient astronomers gazed at the stars in this.
What is an observatory tower?
200
This commodity was substituted for money.
What are cacao beans?
200
This tool was an integral part of Mayan agriculture.
What is a planting stick?
200
The Olmecs, a name meaning "rubber people, " were give the name by what group of people?
Who are the Aztecs?
300
The body of water that bordered the Olmec civilizaiton.
What is the Caribbean Sea?
300
The fibers from the bark of this type of tree was used to make a kind of paper.
What is a ficus tree?
300
This number was a significant mathmatical idea.
What is a zero?
300
Astronomy and Math helped priests to make this tool accurate.
What is a calendar?
300
This European met with Mayan traders in 1502.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
The Mayan method of farming depleted this from soil.
What are nutrients?
300

Around the year 900 C.E., the Mayans did something that has baffled historians. 

What is move from cities to settle in the countryside?
400
The proper name of the physical geographic feature where the Mayan civilization was created on.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
400
The fiber that was most commonly used by Mayan women to spin into cloth. 
What is cotton?
400
This was the symbol that represented the numeral one.
What is a dot?
400
This Mayan calendar had 260 days, contained 20 day names, and each day represented a god or goddess.
What is the sacred calendar?
400
Mayan trade went as far south as Guatemala and this modern Central American country.
What is Belize?
400
This god was had special celebrations and rituals to ensure better crops.
Who is Chac?
400
This disease brought devastation to the civilizations in Central America by the Spanish.
What is smallpox?
500
The three countries that border the modern nation of Mexico.
What are the United States, Belize, and Guatemala?
500
Carvings that appeared on tall stone walls.
What are stela?
500
This symbol was used to represent the number five.
What is a bar?
500
In the Olmec city of Teotihuacan, this infamous 200 foot high building still stands today.
What is the Pyramid of the Sun?
500
Mayan were known to trade with islands in this body of water.
What is the Carribean Sea?
500
These two nonedible crops were important to the Mayans.
What are hemp and cotton?
500
The Spanish came to Mesoamerica in search of these two items.
What is gold and slaves?
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