Telling History
In history we use these as our proof that something really happened: it could be text, a sculpture, a video...
What are sources?
________ is the study of human history using material remains.
What is archeology?
What is a glyph?
This is the year Colonialism began.
When was 1492?
This kind of source comes DIRECTLY from the time period being studied. If you went back in time you would find it there.
What is a primary source.
A _________ describes the way something is built or organized.
What is a structure?
A collection of glyphs (sometimes up to 12) combined into one chunk.
What is a glyph block?
When one nation with power takes the land and controls the people of a different area for their own benefit.
What is Colonialism?
This kind of source is not directly from the past, but is instead somebody talking about the past. This kind of source is made after the time period being studied.
What is a secondary source?
What is a peninsula?
What is corn?
Who was Diego de Landa?
A one sentence answer that recycles the question and does not explain why.
What is a claim?
The area the Maya people are native to.
Where is the Yucatan peninsula?
What did the Hero Twins plant in the ground when they returned from the underworld?
The corn god's head.
What is a coup?
Comes directly from the source and is relevant to a claim. If it is from a text then it is shown using quotation marks.
What is evidence?
Another word for native.
What is indigenous?
This is one example of why it was so hard to decode Maya writing.
What was combining different glyphs together / hiding a glyph inside another / writing a glyph in its abstract form?
The Colonists burned these because they thought they were related to the devil.
What were Maya books/writing?