Development
The 1,000 year old structures from Tikal are made from this material.
What is "stone"?
The shape that Maya social structure resembles.
What is a pyramid?
The age the Maya first gave a girl tools for spinning and weaving.
What is three months old?
The Maya sport.
What is pok-a-tok?
The crops grown by the Maya.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
This country is where Maya civilization developed and there are man Maya living there today.
A. Panama B. Venezuela C. Guatemala D. Costa Rica
What is "Guatemala"?
This group travelled around the Maya world.
Who were the Merchants?
Houses of Maya common folk were centered around these.
What is shared courtyard?
This is an important use of the Sacred Round.
What is "deciding when to plant crops"?
Maya farmers did not have this innovation to assist them.
What is "the wheel"?
This made it possible for the Olmecs and Maya to develop their complex civilizations.
What is "farming" or "agriculture"?
The body part that common Maya people are compared to in the textbook/
What is the Backbone?
This is why the number 3 is significant to Maya females.
What is "because it represented the three stones of the home hearth, or fireplace"?
The body parts used in the Maya sport.
What are wrists, elbows, and hips?
This is the agricultural technique the Maya used in the mountians.
What are "terraces"?
While Maya living in diverse independent city-states, they all shared a _________.
What is "calendar"?
Who are "the nobles and priests"?
This is why the number 4 is significant to Maya males.
What is "the number 4 represented the 4 sides of a plot of farmland"?
An animal of great respect in Maya religion.
What is the Juguar?
This is the major problem with slash and burn farming.
What is "it wears out the soil"?
This is a skill the Mayans adapted from the older Olmec civilization.
What is "writing/using images as symbols"?
What are "god-kings"?
When a Maya couple first married, this is where they lived.
What is "with the wife's family, and the husband would work for them"?
The amount of days in the Sacred Round calendar.
What is 260 days?
The Maya had challenges in growing enough food for their populations, these are some of the causes.
What are: dense forests, little surface water (such as lakes or streams), and poor soil?