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The Maya
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| When did they live? | 800 BCE - 1500 |
| How many calendars did they have? | 2 |
| What did they study? | math and astronomy |
| How did they get food? | agriculture |
| Where were they located? | in Mesoamerica (Mexico and Central America) |
| How did they disappear? | it is a mystery |
| What did the men do? | Study stars, farm and build |
| What did the women do? | housekeeping, wove clothes, took care of children |
| What did they use to work? | Simple machines instead of complex ones, and they used man power |
| What was the class structure like? | King Nobles and Priests Merchants and Artisans Peasants Slaves |
| What did they do to make life better, or impress the Gods, for rain, crops and health? | They made human sacrifice |
| How many gods did they have? | They were POLYTHEISTIC. |
| What were stars? | Each star was a God |
| Where did they bury their Kings? | In pyramids |
| What did they think was beautiful? | Being cross eyed having tattoos |
| They made a calendar on what? | wheel |
| What is Pok-ta-Pok? | A game in a field, they have to hit the ball with their hips |
| What did they use instead of money? | chocolate |
| Did they use letters for writing? | They used picture writing - Glyphs |
| Who does their king descend from? | God |
| What were 2 ways people came to the Americas? | By the Bering Land Bridge or by boat |
| Who did the Mayans learn from? | Olmecs |
| •had hundreds of buildings, including temples, stone pyramids, and palaces •large, paved plazas were gathering places •most Mayans lived in farming villages surrounding a city | Maya cities |
| •3 main groups: nobles, a middle class, and commoners | Maya society |
| •People born into powerful families (king, high officials, and priests) | Maya Society (nobles) |
| •Lower ranking lords and higher ranking commoners (minor officials, soldiers, scribes, craft workers) made up the middle class | Maya Society (middle class) |
| •Most Mayans raised crops | Maya Society (commoners) |
| Extended family •included an older couple, their children, and their grandchildren •lived in a group of simple houses around a central patio | Maya social unit |
| •maya region= dozens of independent city-states •each city-state had its own king •nobles helped run the government •kings increased power by warfare •fought over control of trade routes and land | Maya Government |
| Developed the number 0 | Mayan mathematicians |
| 365 days long, based on rotation of earth around the sun | Mayan calendar |
| built to honor the gods | Mayan pyramids |
| crop cultivated by the Maya | maize (corn) |
| highlands with warm temperatures year round and rain April to October and highland volcanoes produced rich soil | south |
| lowlands with hot, wet climate and heavy rainfall supported dense rainforests with poor soil | north |
| a farming technique in which trees are cut down and burned to clear and fertilize the land | slash and burn agriculture |
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Mrs_Trawinski
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