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Mayan Social Classes
Religion
Contributions of Inventions
Yummy-Yummy
Beauty pageant
100
Who were the rulers of the city states?
Halach uinic
100
What did the Maya believe would make the gods happy?
HUman sacrafices
100
What is a calendar?
365 Days
100
Grew on trees in pods
cacaobeans
100
Why did they put a ball that hung in front of babies eyes?
So their babies could be cross-eyed
200
The noble in charge of the armies?
Batab
200
What did the priests suffer because of mushrooms they ate?
Hallucinations
200
Mayans observed _____ eating this
monkeys
200
When did the Mayans begin settling in villages?
2300 BC
300
Who were soldiers, farm workers and laborers?
The peasants
300
What was their view of the earth?
It was a flat square suspended on a crocodile on a lily pad.
300
What is “0”?
A number the Greeks didn’t know of
300
What are the cacao beans used for?
hot coco&Money
300
What are the colors the Mayans would paint their bodies?
Red, blue, black
400
Anyone who committed a crime or was in debt
The slaves
400
How many layers were above and below the earth?
13 above and 9 below
400
Could predict this
solar eclipses
400
Why did they Fill cacao pods with sand
they wanted to counterfeit the cocoa
400
What was the game mayans played
Pok-ta-Pok
500
Taught writing, astronomy, and mathematics
The priests
500
How many gods did the Maya worship
What are 160 (at least). Everything had a spirit/god
500
Where are the orbits of the planets?
out in space
500
Used for jewelry and in their teeth
Jade
500
What did Diego DeLanda do?
Burned most of the Mayan books