Haab Calendar
What is the Haab calendar
It is a solar calendar, made up of 18 months of 20 days
What is the Tzolk'in calendar
used for religious and ceremonial purposes.
What is the Long Count
This calendar was used to track very long periods of time and is composed of units like the k'in and b'ak'tun.
How many days long was the Haab calendar?
365 days
How many days how are in one cycle
The 260-day sacred calendar
What was the 2012 phenominon
When everyone thought the world was ending
How many months are there?
19 months
How many day names were in the Tzolkin Calendar?
20
How many days was each cycle calculated to be?
2,880,000 days long or about 7885 solar years
What decorated the outer rings of the Haab calendar
The Mayan glyphs
What numbers were the days in each period numbered by?
They were numbered by the numbers 1 to 13
What did the Mayan believe happened at the end of each cycle?
The world was destroyed and recreated