| Question |
Answer |
| What is the Mayan area called today? | Mexico and Central America |
| The Mayas developed what mathematical concept? | Zero |
| What did the Mayas use cocoa beans for? | Hot Chocolate, money |
| What was the name of the priest that tried to convert the Mayas writing into Spanish? | Diego de Landa |
| Who left a six-foot stone sculpture (of their kings heads) that archeologists found? | Olmec |
| What did the Mayas make paper out of? | long strips of bark from fig trees |
| What was the name of the game that the mayas played where they padded thir wrist, elbows, and hips and tried to hit a small rubber ball through a hoop? | pok-to-pok |
| The Mayan king was known as? | Makina- great sun lord |
| What was the name of he drink that the Mayas made of corn paste, water, and honey? | pazole |
| Besides cocoa beans what else was very important to the Mayas? | Most people wore simple cotton cloths. The men wore tunics and breech-cloths, sometimes with a short cape. The women wore straight, plain dresses or wroparound skirts and long blouses. Both men and women wore a lot of jewelry: earings, rings, armbands-NQC |
| sometimes used as sacrifices | slaves |
| great sun lord | king or "makina" |
| told fortunes | priests |
| constructed monuments | peasants |
| chief of the army | nobles |
| lived in palaces | kings |
| debtors | slaves |
| taught writing, astronomy, and mathematics | priests |
| lived in small wooden houses | peasants |
| spoke to gods on behalf of the people | kings
|
| treated sicknesses | priests |
| artists and architects | nobles |
| criminals | slaves |
| farmers | peasants |
| absolute authority | kings |
| educated women | nobles |
| true man, "halach uinic" | kings |
| produced fabric | peasants |
| lived near the center of the city | nobles |
| wore headdresses with quetzal plumes | kings |
| How did the Mayas dress and how did they look? | (blank) |
| How does the Mayas belief of beauty differ from our belief today? | (blank) |
| How did the Mayas value cocoa beans and how do we today value it? | (blank) |
| * The Mayan land contained (type of topography)...? | rainforests, mountains, plateaus, lowlands |
| * Natural resources of the Mayas included... | cotton, rubber, bananas, cocoa |
| * Mayas made great advances in... | art, literature, architecture |
| * Mayan activities included... | playing games, writing books, composing music, studying stars |
| * What did the Mayas base their calendars on? | the cycles of the sun and moon |
| * The Mayan books in existence today describe... | the planet Venus, solar eclipses |
| * Some possible reans for the Mayas' flight from their cities include... | famine, war, rebellion against religious requirements |
| soldiers, farm workers, and laborers | peasants |
| * What place in the cities were centers for trade, celebrations, and slave trade? | plazas |
| * The whole Mayan culture was dominated by... | religion |
| the only people to play pok-to-pok | nobles |
