Cultural Developments
What civilization did the Maya coexist with around 2000 B.C.E.?
What is the Olmec civilization?
How may women have participated in leadership roles in Maya society?
What is by stepping in for their husbands or acting as substitutes?
What did the Maya develop to manage water during droughts?
What are underground rainwater reservoirs?
What characterized the governance of Maya city-states?
What is a lack of a single ruler?
Around what year did historians believe the Maya civilization began to decline?
What is around 800 C.E.?
What significant advancement did the Maya create to track astronomical events?
What is a sophisticated calendar?
What evidence suggests women had more prominent roles in Maya society compared to Olmec society?
What is the availability of records and artifacts related to women?
Name one product the Maya invented related to agriculture.
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What is rubber or paper from tree bark?
How did the social hierarchy of the Maya affect city-state organization?
What is lower classes lived farther from central ceremonial sites?
What environmental factor is thought to have contributed to the decline of the Maya?
What is drought?
Name one agricultural technique the Maya borrowed from the Olmec.
What is irrigation or advanced farming methods?
In what ways did women contribute to their communities?
What are participating in religious ceremonies and agriculture?
How did successful agriculture benefit other members of Maya society?
What is allowing them to pursue skills beyond farming?
What was a common cultural aspect shared by all Maya city-states?
What is a shared belief system?
How did inter-city warfare affect the Maya civilization?
What is it disrupted political structures?
What monumental structures did the Maya build to honor their rulers?
What are pyramids?
How did the roles of women in Maya society compare to those in other ancient civilizations?
What is women had more opportunities for leadership?
What was the significance of the Maya's sophisticated calendar for agriculture?
What is it helped determine planting and harvesting times?
How did the fragmentation of governance impact the Maya civilization?
What is it caused instability despite cultural continuity?
What is one theory about the population size of the Maya contributing to their decline?
What is that the population became too large for the land to support?
What role did priests play in Maya society?
What are spiritual leaders and political rulers?
What significant power did Maya priests hold in relation to women?
What is influencing both the spiritual and political aspects of society?
What recent discovery indicates the Maya's advanced methods?
What is the production of salt or chocolate?
What was the relationship between city-states and their rulers?
What is city-states had their own ruling elites?
What is city-states had their own ruling elites?
How do we know that the Maya civilization didn't completely vanish?
What is millions of people today identify as Maya descendants?