Equation
Multiplication
Division
Remainder
Plus and minus
100
2*6-8+2=
6
100
4*6=
24
100
24%3=
8
100
The Maya had one writing system, but ____ spoken languages.
What is 25?
100
A sacred stone used in trading and sculpture.
What is jade?
200
He was responsible for organizing the proper rituals and ceremonies to please the gods.
Who is the Maya king?
200
Commoner men and boys cleared and maintained the fields for farming. Women.....
What are responsible for the household & children, prepared the food, made and painted clay jars, made fabric for clothing, and wove baskets?
200
The Haab calendar was based on the sun and was important for predicting the times to....
What is plant and harvest crops?
200
symbols that represent a word, idea or sound
What is a glyph? or hieroglyphic?
200
A person with a sloping forehead, crossed eyes, large nose, decorated teeth and tattoos.
What is a beautiful Mayan?
300
These were used as tombs for the dead and to help the priests get closer to the gods.
What is a pyramid?
300
These people wore huipiles, cotton robes decorated with colorful embroidery.
What are noblewomen?
300
A technique used to create level farmland in the hills.
What are terraces?
300
Materials the Mayan wrote on- (name two!)
What are stelae, pottery, deersking, thin paper bark?
300
Used as money for trading
What are jade beads and cacao beans?
400
The author described how the Maya needed everything to be balanced so that the world could be controlled or planned. The author called this idea...
What is a "well-ordered universe"?
400
The social class system in order from top to bottom.
What is kings & nobility, professional class, commoners, slaves?
400
This was used for a person to carry heavy loads on wood frames on their back.
What is a tumpline?
400
The remaining codices are important to historians because they
What is tell the Mayan point of view of their history?
400
The staple of the Mayan diet.
What are tamales made of maize?
500
The Maya offered blood as a sacrifice to please the rain god.
Who is Chak?
500
These people were in the professional class.
What are warriors, architects, merchants and large landowners?
500
It's purpose was to bring water to the crops.
What are irrigation ditches?
500
The sacred book of the Maya that tells their creation story.
What is Popol Vuh?
500
The watery underworld
What is Xibalba?
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