cities
What were the three cities names?
Tikal, Palenque, and chicken Itza.
The Mayans had one of the most advanced writing systems in the Americas? True or False.
True
God-Kings
The Mayans were what?
polytheistic
What were the two places they were located in?
Southern Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula
what were the 3 features they had in their cities?
Pyramids, palaces and plazas.
how many Glyph's did it include?
800
What kind of government was it?
Theocracy
What religious rituals did they do?
Blood offerings and Human sacrifices.
What were the two geographical features surrounding them?
Steamy jungles and cool mountains.
What kind of cities were they? (hint: due to their surrounding geographical terrain.)
city-states.
How many codex-records exist?
3
Rulers were considered to be what?
divine priests.
What were the temples called?
ziggaruats
Why was their environment important
allowed them to get food