Government
The ranking system of government the Mayans used, ruled by two main groups.
What is a monarchy?
This astronomical feat was done by the Mayans with just a forked stick at night.
What is finding the planets' estimated positions and velocities?
A modern delicacy first made by the Mayans for medicinal purposes.
What is chocolate?
This was one of the core beliefs of the Mayans involving lives and paying tribute to the gods.
What is human sacrifice?
A special type of cotton fusion compound made by the Mayans.
What is a Mayan textile?
The main breakdown of the Mayan empire in terms of regions with an independent government.
What are city-states?
The Mayans were able to perfectly predict this type of space phenomenon.
What is a solar eclipse?
This substance, now commonly frowned upon today, was used by the Mayans as a medicinal tool, a connection to the gods, and a ward to shoo off evil spirits.
What is tobacco?
It was believed that gods resided in wells, so children were hung in wells for hours in the hope of bringing back messages from the gods in this practice.
What are cenotes?
This type of sculpture features a pole with many different stacked faces on it, generally made by the Mayans and other empires to praise the gods.
What is a totem pole?
Which of the following was not a Mayan punishment: (Death, Slavery, Fines, Prison, Shaved Head)
What is prison?
A then-groundbreaking mathematics concept the Mayans invented in terms of expressing numbers in a tangible form.
What is the dot/bars method?
This crop, over time, became the Mayan's staple food and still is a staple all over the world today.
What is maize/corn?
The Mayans invented this system that most people use to organize their lives and remember events.
What is the calendar system?
The Mayans invented some parts of this type of entertainment.
What is music?
(They invented the drums, horns, and castanets)
The Mayans were similar to Islam and other great empires of the past because they established these, causing cultural diffusion.
What are extensive trade routes?
An important concept in mathematics that was originally coined by the Mayans.
What is zero?
Something we use almost every day in modern society for safe consumption.
What is a filtration system?
An ancient type of basketball using only body parts to get a ball through a high hoop. Losing resulted in death in the Mayan culture.
What is Pok-A-Tok?
These are ancient types of "paper" that the Mayans used made of fig bark, white lime, and jaguar skins, folded into accordion shapes to make books of medicine, astronomy, and more.
What are codices?
The Mayan empire created this element of government that all courts strive for.
What is a balanced judicial court?
The Mayans invented this field of science that we use to learn more about our universe.
What is astronomy?
Since the Mayans lived in deep forests, they used this technique to have the most fertile soil for harvest season, as well as more land.
What is the slash-and-burn technique?
The Mayans invented a format of scripture we know to be used in Egypt.
What is hieroglyphic writing?
This important substance was speculated to have been made by the Mayans before it was patented by Charles Goodyear in the 19th century.
What is rubber?