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100

What is the color of Sacrifice?

What is blue

100

Maya was influenced by which other culture?

What are the Olmecs



100

Where did the Mayans flourish

In the dense rainforests of Central America

100

What was their staple crop

What is Maize (corn)

200

Name three countries that Mayan lived in

What is Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Belize and El Salvador

200

When did their civilization began

around 2000 BC
200

Name some of the bustling cities of the Mayans

What is Tikal, Copan, and Chichen Itza

200

True or False

The Mayans were incredible architects

True

300

What is one of the most fascinating aspects of the Mayan Civilization

What is their writing system

300

What was their writing system composed of?

What are hieroglyphics

300

True or False

Their writing system was a complete written language.

True 

300

What other crops did the Mayans grow? Name at least three

Beans, squash and chili peppers

400

What was the Mayan economy based off of

What is agriculture

400

What played a central role in Mayan life?

What is religion

400

What was one way to appease the gods?

Bloodletting or human and animal sacrifices

400

What was the purpose of human sacrifices, explain in detail.

To appease the gods and ensure rain, good harvests and victory in battle.

500

When did the Mayan civilization decline

Around 900 AD

500

Where do descendants of Maya continue to live

What is Central America

500

When did the Maya drink their chocolate drink

What is for the elite and for religious ceremonies

500

What were some things that the Mayans traded?

What is jade, obsidian and cacoa.

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