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The Maya
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100
a building with a religious use or meaning
What is a temple?
100
a container
What is a vessel?
100
Farmers cut these into hillsides to grow things and store rainwater.
What are terraces?
100
According to the Maya religious tradition, the gods successfully made humans from this other word for corn.
What is maize?
200
a person who has the training or authority to carry out religious ceremonies or rituals
What is a priest?
200
an occurrence or event believed to be a sign of the future
What is an omen?
200
This sculpture shows us the importance of what to the Maya?
What are cacao beans?
200
The Maya played this game that is pictured.
What is pok-tapok?
300
something or someone given or killed for a religious purpose
What is sacrifice?
300
an expert in the study of material remains of people from the past
What is an archaeologist?
300
The game of pok-tapok was very dangerous because players on the losing team could be what?
What is sacrificed?
300
In the Maya culture, pyramids were use as places of what?
What is worship?
400
a person who designs buildings
What is an architect?
400
a day in which daytime and nighttime are about the same length, which happens twice every year.
What is an equinox?
400
We know that equinoxes were important to the Maya because the pyramid at Chichen Itza's statue of what?
What is a snake?
400
This is a collection of Maya stories that tell the story of creation from their beliefs.
What is the Popol Vuh?
500
a year that has 366 days, or one more than a typical year, and occurs every four years.
What is a leap year?
500
a special event to mark a person's entry into a certain group or status.
What is an initiation ceremony?
500
The Maya wrote in this ancient way that uses pictures to represent words or ideas.
(two words)
What is hieroglyphic symbols?
500
The Maya's calendar system showed they had an advanced knowledge of what?
What is mathematics?