MAYA ACHIEVEMENTS
the Maya developed a mathematics and were the first to come up with this number
What is 0 ?
Gave the Maya access to a network of underground rivers and streams.
What is the cenontes or sinkholes?
An area where the soil has collapsed into a hollow or depression, water comes up from the ground
What is a cenote or sink hole?
they are at the bottom of the pyramid
What is a person that pays tax's and works on large building ?
Crossed the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Europeans/Spaniards ?
The Maya used the pyramids for this
What is worship their gods?
Rulers of Maya city states
What is kings ?
a small tropical American evergreen tree cultivated for its seeds, the source of cocoa and chocolate
What is a cacao?
they worshipped this god
What is the sun god?
What is small pox?
The Maya did not have this to help build the pyramids or elaborate cities.
What is no horses or load barring animals?
The process of cutting down trees and burning them to plant crops and build.
What is the slash and burn ?
a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
What is superior armor?
These calendars has 260-days and 365-day
What is Maya calendar ?
thick forest.
What is blocking the sunlight?
They tried to please the rain god by doing these things.
What is a ceremony and human sacrifice?
The city-states fought against each other and caused this.
What is the reason why the Maya civilization collapes ?
this culture used hieroglyphics
What is the Maya civilization ?
the homes of the Mayas
What is present-day mexico,Guatemala,Honduras,El Salvador,and Brazil?
this supplied the Mayas with year-round of water.
What is a swamp and a sinkhole?
they settled on this part of land.
What is a Peten?
The Europeans came to the Americas to find this.
What is the gold and slaves ?