The Maya
These people ruled Mayan city-states.
Who are kings and queens?
Latin America's climate is _.
What is tropical?
A Maya city-state consisted of _.
What are people?
The Mayas understanding of math and astronomy led them to invent this.
What is an accurate calendar?
North America connects Mexico to the _ and South America to the _. (it is a direction)
What is north and south?
The Mayan calendar had _ months.
What is 18?
This is where the Caribbean Islands are located.
Where is Central America?
*DAILY DOUBLE* This was the century the Spanish discovered the territory of the Maya.
When was the 1500s?
*DAILY DOUBLE* This was a very important part of the day for all Maya people.
What is bathing?
The center of each Mayan city always had this amount of pyramids.
What is 1?
These kind of people had the least power in Mayan society.
What are farmers?
Traveling up into mountains, Latin America's climate is _.
What is cooler?
Maya people always wore their hair _.
What is long?
The Maya multiplied using this strategy.
What is repeated addition?
Mayan scribes wrote _.
What are books?
The Maya civilization started this year.
When was 2000 BC?
This is the name of the long mountain range in Western South America.
What is Andes?
What is cut your hair short?
The Maya civilization wrote these kind of words.
What are hieroglyphics/glyphs/hieroglyphs?
*DAILY DOUBLE* These 4 countries were the modern-day countries the Ancient Maya city-states were built.
Where are Honduras, Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize?
The Mayans believed that priests talked to the gods, and that the priests could do this.
What is control the weather?
Most of Latin America's elevation is this.
What is below sea level?
The Maya played the earliest team sport in history, which is this.
What is pitz?
The Maya played on a ball court called this.
What is alaw/jalab/jalaw?
This was the year the Maya cities were mostly deserted.
When was 900 CE?