Geography & Early Cultures
This area includes the southern part of Mexico and parts of northern countries in Central America.
What is Mesoamerica?
This covered most of the Mayan land.
What are forests?
The highlands(mountain areas) had these valuable stones used for trading, weapons, and art.
What are jade and obsidian?
Maya's civilization began to collapse in this year.
What is in the 900s AD?
The Upper Class of Mayan society consisted of these groups.
What are the rulers, priests, warriors, and merchants?
The Maya were often credited as one of the first civilizations to use this mathematical concept.
What is the symbol for zero?
These people formed the first urban civilization in Mesoamerica.
What is the Olmec?
The Mayans used these resources to build their homes.
What are wood poles, vines, and mud?
Maya cities often battled each other for these two things.
What are to gain power and land?
Warfare was often very bloody and competition for this resource may have led to the decline of the Maya. (What is it and what is it for?)
What is land for farming?
This group organized the transportation and distribution of goods.
Who are the merchants?
The Maya developed a writing system that was very similar to this?
What is Egyptian hieroglyphics?
This landform is the helped people first cross into North America.
What is the land bridge?
This sharp, glasslike volcanic rock was used to make weapons and trade.
What is obsidian?
These two city-states often battled for control of the smaller cities in their area.
What are Tikal and Calakmul?
Life for the lower class was often very harsh and demands made by the king may have led them to do what?
What is to rebel and leave the cities?
Lower class Maya had to server their rulers by performing these acts. (Name two of the three)
What are "paying" their rulers with good such as cloth and salt, working on building temples, palaces, and other buildings, and to serve in the army during times of war?
The Maya build these structures to study the stars.
What are observatories?
These people are credited with developing the first major civilization in South America.
What is the Chavin?
During the Classic Age, the Maya civilization spread to this area.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
The game called Pok-a-Tok that the Mayan played originated from these people.
Who are the Olmec?
The Mayans believed this about their rulers which led them to follow their rulers without much thought?
What is that the rulers were related to the gods?
The Mayan's achievements in astronomy helped them to develop these two types of calendars, which focused on what?
What are religious calendars to plan religious events and an agriculture calendar to plan planting and harvesting?
The Maya had two different calendars to for these?
What are to plan for religious ceremonies and farming activities?
This crop eventually became very important to the people of Mesoamerica.
What is maize?
This resource was known as food of rulers and of the gods and often used as money.
What is chocolate/cocao beans?
The Maya cities were often known as city-states because they had these two qualities.
What is that they had their own government and its own king?
This group was often the most educated of the Mayan people?
Who are the priests?
The Maya's understanding of this helped them to develop their expertise in calenders.
What is astronomy?
This god was the most important of all the Mayan gods.
Who is the Creator?