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The area from central Mexico to northern Central America.

What is Mesoamerica?

100
Mayas who worked the fields and lived in extended family housing clusters.
What are commoners? (Peasants)
100

A sporting event that was part of the religious ritual experience.

What is the Ball Game?

100
Several related families living together.
What are extended families?
100
Maya writing system
What is hieroglyphs / glyphs?
200
A place of thin, fragile soil and a hot, humid climate.
What is the rainforest?
200
Mayas born to powerful families who controlled the best farmland and those who worked it.
Who are nobles?
200
The practice of killing people as offerings to the gods.
What is human sacrifice?
200
A small group of highly privileged or skilled people.
What are elites?
200

The majority of Maya writing remaining.

What are glyphs carved in stone?

300
An area characterized by forested mountains, volcanoes, and rich soil.
What are the highlands?
300

A pair of explorers who credited with "unearthing" Maya culture in the 1800s.

Who are Stephens and Catherwood?

300

The practice of drawing blood and burning it as an offering.

What is bloodletting?

300
Earliest Mayas from the Pre-Classic Maya Era were mainly these.
What are hunter-gatherers?
300
Major Maya mathematical development.
What is concept of zero?
400
A region characterized by being part hot and flat and part rainforest.
What are the lowlands?
400
King of Copan immortalized on stone carvings.
Who is 18 Rabbit?
400
The object often used to pierce one's tongue in the practice of bloodletting.
What is a stingray spine?
400
Those at the top of Maya social structure.
What are kings (rulers/emperors)?
400
The reason Maya temples are so amazing from an architectural/engineering standpoint.
What is they were constructed without stone tools, wheeled vehicles, or work animals?
500
A peninsula occupied by the Maya and home to a number of once-great Maya cities.
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
500
King of Palenque who was buried in the Temple of Inscriptions.
Who is King Pacal?
500
The type of pyramid on which sacrifices would be made.
What is a pyramid with a temple on top?
500
A type of farming that helped Mayas "settle" the rainforest.
What is slash and burn agriculture?
500
The solar calendar has this many days and is also know as this.
What is 365 days and Vague Year.