MAYA ACHIEVEMENTS
the Maya developed a mathematics and used ______ and _______ to make the numbers.
What are bars and dots ?
What is the name of the ruler of the Mayans that ruled the longest?
Who is Pacal ?
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?
True or False, the Mayans were Nomadic
False, the Mayans were farmers and lived in villages
The city-states fought against each other and caused this.
What is the reason why the Maya civilization collapes ?
The Maya used the pyramids for this
What is worship their gods, sometimes sacrificing animals and people?
The ruler named above, ruled for how many years?
What is 68 years?
a small tropical American evergreen tree cultivated for its seeds, the source of cocoa and chocolate
What is a cacao?
Name 2 crops that the Mayans farmed
What is corn, beans, squash
This game was played by the Mayans.
What is Ollamaliztli
How many days were on the Religious Mayan Calendar?
What is 260 days?
They tried to please the rain god by doing these things.
What is a ceremony and human sacrifice?
a piece of land almost surrounded by water.
What is a peninsula?
What is the purpose of a terrace?
The mayans built these into hillsides so that they had flat like steps to grow crops so that the water didn't erode the crops and flush it all down hill.
This happened to the losing team
They could be sacrificed and the captain beheaded
How many days were on the "Mayan Calendar Year"
What is 365 days?
This city had a temple in it that recorded Pacals achievements.
What is Palenque
The pyramids were mainly made of ?
What is Limestone
The mayan culture thrived for about ________ years
What is 600 years
The Mayans had this system for writing
What is hieroglyphics?
The people that pay taxes and do all the hard labor are where on the hierarchy tier (triangle)?
What is, the bottom of the Hierarchy.
this supplied the Mayas with year-round of water.
What is a swamp and a cenote?
The Mayans were mainly living where in Mexico?
What is the Yucatan Peninsula
Long periods of _______________ could also have been the reason for the collapse of the Mayans.
What is drought