GEOGRAPHY
The Olmec and the Maya lived in this area which today is Mexico and Central America.
What is Middle America?
The period of time when much of the world was covered in ice
What was the Ice Age?
The Olmec used this method to clear forest for farming.
What is slash and burn?
The time between A.D. 250 and A.D. 900 is known as this period.
What is the Classic Period?
The Maya used these symbols in their writings and craved them in stone.
What are glyphs?
The Maya built their civilization on what peninsula?
What is Yucatan Peninsula?
Large sheets of ice.
What are glaciers?
The worship of many gods.
What is polytheism?
This city was one of the great centers of the Maya.
What was Copan?
The Maya carved glyphs into these tall stones.
What are stelae?
The sea located to the east of the Maya and Olmec Empires and south of the Gulf of Mexico
What is Caribbean Sea?
The large area of rolling hills in Middle America.
What is the Central Plateau?
This animal was often carved my the Olmec.
What is the jaguar?
The most important crop of the Maya.
What is maize or corn?
The Maya developed an accurate one of these which allowed them to record exact dates.
What is a calendar?
The land bridge that people crossed to get from Asia to the Americas
What is Beringa?
The Ocean to the South and West of Middle America
What is the Pacific Ocean.
One of these enormous carvings of stone weighs 24 tons.
What are the giant stone heads?
He was the Mayan god of maize and corn and was one of the most important gods of the Maya.
Who was Yum Kax?
The Maya had a great interest in this science which is the study of planets and stars.
What is astronomy?
Most of middle America is in this climate zone.
What is the tropical zone?
This season, between May and October is when most of the rain comes.
What is the rainy season?
The Olmec liked to wear these decorations made of jade and other beautiful stones.
What are bracelets and neclaces?
The Maya played this ball game.
What is Pokta-Pok
Maya people can still be found in Middle America. The Maya still grow maize (corn) and they grow this crop which is sold around the world.
What is coffee?