Believe it or Not
It's who Mayans used the most for human sacrifices and accounted for most of the Mayan people.
Who are peasants?
These people were the most important to the Maya because they made and sold the goods.
What are merchants or artisans?
What is farming?
What is maize?
The Maya sometimes used this pay for things.
What are cacao beans (chocolate)?
A religious ritual reserved for Mayan royalty.
What is bloodletting?
The Mayan civilization what made up of several of these, each with their own king.
What are city-states?
While royalty wore brightly colored, hand woven clothes, peasant often had to wear these.
What are loincloths, long skirts or blankets (coverings)?
The Maya ate this horned animal.
What are deer?
It's what the Maya based their counting system on.
What is the number 20?
A deep natural well that the Maya threw children into to please the gods!
What are cenote?
It's the type of government of the Maya.
What is a monarchy?
Used for public gatherings and ball games, it was built to honor the Mayan King Pacal.
What is Palenque City?
It's a method of farming the Maya sometimes used that no everyone agrees with.
What is slash and burn?
The Mayans invented it.
What is the number 0?
It's about how many gods and goddesses the Maya had.
What is over 200?
Just as important as the king, often giving the king advice.
What is a priest?
It's what played a role in all the Mayans did in their personal and public lives.
What is religion?
The Maya farmed using this method in swampy areas.
What is a raised bed crop?
It's what the Maya used as writing.
What are hieroglyphics?
It's why Mayans did anything and everything.
What is pleasing the gods?
What are punishments?
Even though they were NOT the ones usually used as Mayan sacrifices or working in fields, they still had no rights or privileges.
Who are slaves?
It's when the Maya cut little field areas into hillsides to farm, reducing erosion and water loss.
What is a terrace crop?
It showed that the end of the world would be in the year 2012.
What is the Mayan calendar?