Origins and History
This civilization created the Dresden Codex.
Who are the Maya?
The Dresden Codex is made from this material.
What is bark paper?
This planet was known as the “Herald of War.”
What is Venus?
The Maya believed celestial events were controlled by these.
What are gods?
The codex helped determine the timing of these.
What are rituals/ceremonies?
The Dresden Codex was created during this time period.
What is the Late Postclassic period?
The codex is folded in this style.
What is accordion (screenfold)?
The Eclipse Table is based on this number of lunar months.
What is 405?
This god controlled rain and storms.
Who is Chaac?
Priests used the codex to tell farmers when to do this.
What is plant or burn fields?
Only this many Maya codices survived the Spanish conquest.
What is four?
In Maya numbers, a dot represents this value.
What is 1?
The Maya tracked these three celestial cycles.
What are the moon, sun (eclipses), and Venus?
This ceremony was performed to ask for rain.
What is the Ch’a Cháak ceremony?
Predicting eclipses gave priests this kind of advantage.
What is political power (or leverage)?
The codex was created to preserve knowledge about this system.
What is the cosmos (the universe as an ordered system)?
This symbol represents zero in Maya numerals.
What is a shell?
This problem describes how celestial cycles don’t perfectly match math over time.
What is drift?
Eclipses and Venus cycles were believed to be this from the gods.
What are divine messages?
Public ceremonies reinforced this social structure.
What is hierarchy?
This type of specialists created the codex.
Who are scribes and astronomer-priests?
These represent gods, time periods, and celestial bodies in the codex.
What are glyphs?
This system corrected errors over a 33-year cycle.
What is the correction table (cumulative correction)?
The codex helped priests interpret this through the sky.
What is divine will?
The king was placed at the center of this during ceremonies.
What is the universe (or cosmic order)?