Vocabulary
Based on the "measuring stick" for remarkablity. This is the size...
What is scale?
What are ritual and solar?
This was the base system the Maya used
This was one of the largest Mayan cities
What is Tikal?
What is 150?
What is significance?
This is how many calendar cycles the Maya used
What is two?
They were one of the first cultures in the world to develop the idea of this number
What is zero?
Mrs. Mitzel has been to this major Mayan city
What is Chichen Itza?
This type of volcanic rock was used as Mayan weapons
What is obsidian?
This area was home to the Mayans and is part of modern-day Central America
What is Mesoamerica?
These astronomical buildings can be found in cities like Chichen Itza
What are observatories?
This is the symbol the Maya used for zero
What is a shell?
It took this long to finish a single home
What is 2-3 months?
The Mayans used these two methods to transport goods
What are porters and boats/canoes?
Small, independent cities and the surrounding territory
What are city-states?
The Mayan priests-astronomers were so good that they could predict these
What are the eclipses of the moon?
Positional number systems cannot work without this number
What is zero?
This was used to coat the outside of buildings
What is stucco?
This was a highly valued trade item
A ceremony with an order of actions - often for religious purposes
These two calendars ran concurrently, but the first day of the two calendars coincided only once every 52 years
What are the 260-day and 365-day calendar?
The first people credited with using zero in all its applications
Mayan rebuilding happened after
What are animal skins, cacao, cotton, feathers, honey, jade, obsidian, and salt?