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Who Were the Maya?
Maya People
Maya Writing and Books
Mayan Math
Penguins
100
Southern and Northern Highlands
What was the area in which the Maya lived
100
Everything each Maya did was to satisfy them
Who are the gods?
100
A combination of symbols that represent sounds or entire ideas
What are hieroglyphics?
100
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What is 107
100
What helps a penguin keep warm?
What are its feathers, fat or actions?
200
A group of wandering hunters
From whom did the Mayan civilization develop?
200
To honor the gods they did this
Why did they build temples?
200
Large stone monuments where records were kept
What were stelae?
200
The Maya developed this concept
What is 0
200
The part of the globe (not continent) where penguins live.
What is the southern hemisphere
300
The height of the average Maya male
What is 5 ft. 4 inches?
300
Mayan books
What are codices?
300
The Maya system of mathematics was based on this
What is 20
300
As soon as she lays an egg, how does the female emperor penguin keep the chick from freezing
Catching it on her feet
400
Guatemala
Where did the Maya first come to?
400
The sophisticated technique they use
What is agricultural?
400
What Mayan books were made of
What is fig tree bark
400
They predicted these events which involve the obscuring of light from the passage of one body in the sky between another and an obaserver
What is an eclipse?
400
An imaginary line that divides the earth in half
What is the Equator
500
Between 250 and 900 CE
When did the Mayan culture reach its height?
500
The Yucatan
What is the part of Mexico where descendants of the Maya still live today?
500
One of the things that Mayan books could contain
What are astronomical tables, information about religous ceremonies and calendars showing lucky days for farming and hunting
500
They considered Venus to be this
What is the war star?
500
A type of region that's not too hot and not too cold
What is temperate