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Ancient Mayas
Classic Maya Sites
History of the Mayas
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The ancient Mayas lived in what present day countrys?
Southern Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras and Western El Salvador
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What is the largest Maya Center?
What is Tikal, in Guatemalas northern Peten.
100
The Mayas were the only native American people to develop this
What is a full writing system.
100
Who and when conquered the Mayas?
What is Spanish in 1697
100
What was their favorite game?
What is Pok-a-Tok, combination of volleyball, basketball, soccer. Loser teams were sometimes sacrificed to the Gods.
200
How sophisticated were the Mayas?
Very culturally advanced, compared to Greeks, fine farmers and architects, artists, goldsmiths and coppersmiths and social system
200
Who is Grandpa DD?
What is the DADDY!
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What is the name for all Gods of a religion?
What is Pantheon
200
Where do descendant of the Maya people live today?
What is Central America and Mexico
200
What did some people thing that Pok-a-tok was played for
to earn favor with the gods
300
What kind of writing did the Maya hav?
A kind of hieroglypic
300
Palenque and Coba in Mexico and Copan in Honduras are what?
What is important classic Maya sites.
300
Did the Mayas believe in Gods
What is MANY Gods and Goddesses, believed there were gods in chare of the layers of the universe
300
How do todays Mayas tend crops and dress
What is very much the same way as their ancestors
300
How did ancient mayans dress?
What is with great pride, groomed and ornately
400
When did the Maya civilization reach their peak?
What is the Classic Period.
400
What is Mayas' most precious stone?
What is the Jade.
400
Who controlled government for the Maya
What is Priests, they controlled government, religion, warfare, and trade.
400
When did lowland Maya start to decline?
What is A.D. 790 to A.D. 900
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What did the nobles wear?
What is headdresses high on wooden frames
500
What were the two lowest classes of Mayan people?
What is peasants and slaves
500
Name a few Maya wore to be fancy?
What is jewelry, complicated hairstyles and painted bodies
500
What is the second highest level?
What is Nobility.
500
What may have caused the Mayan decline?
What is fear of earthquakes, hurricanes, disease, crop failure due to pest and disease, invasions, uprising of peasants, lack of communication
500
Who wants to say sorry for Velocity?
What is ALEX