Vocabulary 1
Milpa
What is a small field cleared from the forest, cropped for a few seasons, and abandoned?
Cenote
What is the Maya word for a sinkhole formed from collapsed limestone, containing water?
Location of the Mayan empire.
What is the Yucatan peninsula, 2/3 El Salvador, 1/4 Honduras, Belize, Guatemala?
Maya art
The Maya had three main types of art that we know of, Glyphs, stelae, and pottery. The Glyphs were pictures that stood for words and was the Maya's written form of language. Stelae were tall stone monuments that they built around their cities. They made pottery for many reasons, plates, cups, decorations, or pieces for ceremonial rituals.
150 C.E.
The Hauberg stela, the earliest piece of writing in the Maya system is created (Maya)
Stelae
What is a tall sculpted stone monument?
Glyphs
What is the Mayan symbolic writing system?
What were the Maya big Ideas?
The Mayas were an empire, but they weren't an empire. There was no one main ruler, and the city-states were constantly in conflict. They were not easily concurred. They had limited resources and overpopulation, their main method of planting crops was Slash and Burn.
800-950 C.E.
End of the stela. Many centers were abandoned (Maya)
Maize
What is the Maya word for corn?
Pok-a-tok
What is the Mayan ceremonial game?
Yucatan
What is the home of the Maya (ci-u-than)?
Seven Macaw
What is the Maya bird demon?
Popol Vuh
What is the Maya creation story?
Chronology
What is the extra credit?