Agriculture and Family Life
This was the staple of the Mayan diet.
What is maize?
Performed rituals and sacrifices.
Who are priests
What is are steles.
How a person's power could be determed by his headware.
The bigger the headdress, the more powerful the person is.
A meal commonly prepared by Mayan women.
What are tortillas or tomales?
This group fell right below the ruler on the social pyramid.
Who are the priests/nobles?
Two body parts that cannot be used in Pok-a-tok.
What are hands and feet.
The number of days the Mayan solar calendar contained.
What is 365.
What are jade fillings, filed teeth, an elongated skull, and crossed eyes?
The job of a priest.
What is the maintain favor with the gods?
Three things that a priest would use the Sacred Calender to determine.
What is when to plant, when to go to war, when to marry, when to cure. when to hunt, when to do battle.
Mayas adopted this form of writing created by using pictures as symbols
What is hieroglyphics.
This rarely happened in a Pok-a-tok game.
What is the ball was hit through the hoop.
Two crops grown by the Mayans other than corn.
What are beans, squash, cocoa beans, and chili peppers?
Three ways to become enslaved.
What is sold by parents, born into it, captured warrior of humble origins, or comitted a serious crime?
The reason that Mayan gods revolved around nature.
What is because farming and therefore Mayan survival were dependant upon nature.
Fig paper containing Mayan glyhs and illustrations that folds out like a fan.
What is a codex.
The reason Mayan rulers and nobility lived in the center of the city-state.
It was the most protected area from invaders.
Done by the Mayan men to provide food in addition to farming.
What is hunting?
When not providing food for their families, male peasants were required to do this.
What is build pyramids?
The Mayans believed that the gods had the power to do this to the world that they had created.
What is that the gods could destroy it.
What is 20. What is zero. What is a shell.
The Mayans were the first civilization to use this material, used to make the pok-a-tok ball.
What is rubber.