Architecture
Rulers, priests, and nobles live in these buildings
What are palaces?
The Maya believed humans were created from this crop
What is corn?
The Maya utilized this material for a ballgame
What is rubber?
People of this class served as soldiers during wars
What are peasants?
The Mayan civilization is located in this large part of the world
What is Mesoamerica (or Central America)
This city was the largest urban centers of the Mayan civilization
What is Tikal?
The Mayan's had two calendars, the normal one had 365 days and the religious one had this many days
What is 260 days?
The Maya made paper of of the bark of this tree
What is a fig tree?
Only people of these two positions could read or write
What are priests and nobles?
This ocean was to the West and South
What is the Pacific ocean?
Public buildings were used for these purposes
What are governmental and religious purposes?
Roughly the amount of gods the Maya worshiped
What is 160 gods?
The Mayans predicted the end of the world in this year
When is 2012?
Nobles oversaw this for the state
What is state administration?
The Maya modified these types of forests to survive
What are tropical forests?
These were the building materials used to build Mayan pyramids
What are stone, limestone, (and)or adobe?
The Maya played this ritual ballgame where the losers were sacraficed
What is pok-a-tok?
Amount of months in the daily calendar
What is 18 months?
This is the English translation of the Mayan word for ruler; halach uinic
What is "true man"?
This peninsula was the heart of the Maya civilization
What is the Yucatan Peninsula?
This was the unit of measurement that was about 58 inches long
What is a Zapal?
Marriages were negotiated by the village matchmaker, also called this
What is atanzahab?
This is the name of the religious calendar
What is Tzolkin?
Name two of the four ways to become a slave
What are crimes, war prisoners, children who are sold, born into slavery?
This mountain range running through the Maya Highlands and Chiapas provided ancient Maya cities with obsidian, jade, and other key resources unavailable in the Maya Lowland
What are the Sierra Madre Mountains?