The Mayans

Big Picture

100

This is the spelling of the place ending in Peninsula where the Mayans lived.

 What is Y-U-C-A-T-Á-N?

200

This is Mayan’s origin place

What is Guatemla?

300

This number is the estimate of Mayans around the world.

What is 7 million?

400

These are three places the majority of Mayans live in today.

What is Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize?

500

This is the part of Belize that the majority of Mayans live in.

What is northern?

Geography

100

This is the number of cities the Mayans created.

What is 40?

200

This is the average number of citizens per each old Mayan city.

What is 5,000 - 50,000?

300

This is one of the things the scientists found when excavating the former Mayan cities.

What are pyramids, plazas, courts for a traditional Mayan games? 

400

This is the definition for Mesoamerica.

What is a word describing Central America and Mexico before the 16th century?

500

This is the name of the traditional Mayan game played on courts.

What is ulama?

Modern Day Context

100

This is the number of variations of Mayan languages.

What is 70?

200

This is an organization fighting against Mayan discrimation.

What is Mayan League?

300

This is the religion the Spanish converted many Mayans to. 

What is Catholicism?

400

This is one issue modern day Mayans face on a daily basis.

What is discrimination?

500

This is one meat Mayans offer the gods in church.

What is Chicken?

Practices

100

This is the type of gods that the Mayans associated with the visiting of the caves.

What are Death Gods? 

200

This is the type of clothing the Mayans wear while they perform traditional dances. 

What is colorful?

300

They believe blood is _____ of the gods.

What is food?

400

This is one of the ways Mayans recognize diseases.

What is watching closely for symptoms?

500

This is 3 times where the Tzolk’in was used.

What are weddings, religious ceremonies, holidays, coronations, and naming of children?

Miscellaneous

100

This is 1 of 3 of the gods the Mayans believe in.

What are the sun, moon, or rain?

200

This is about the number of people who speak one of the Mayan languages.

What is 5 million?

300

These are who the Mayans believe to be  the peacekeepers between the gods and the earth.

What are the “Kuhul ajaw”?

400

This is about the number of years the Mayan healing process has been around. 

What is 2,000 yeaes?

500

This is the place the Mayans performed sacrifices.

What is the top of a pyramid?