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Maya Civilization

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Maya Civilization a great civilization (about 2000 BCE to 1500 CE); included present-day southern Mexico and large portions of Central America
Slash-and-burn agriculture a farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops
Maize a type of corn first grown in Mesoamerica
Glyphs written language with pictures used as symbols
Alliance an agreement between two or more peoples to work together
City-states a political system consisting of an independent city and the surrounding area
Ceremonial Centers a large plaza in a city center, surrounded by temples and palaces, where religious rituals and other public ceremonies took place
Ritual a set of actions that is always performed the same way as part of a religious ceremony
Sacrifice a gift of an animal for slaughter to honor the gods
Divine related to or coming from a god or gods
Mesoamerica the region extending from modern Mexico through Central America
Achievement a thing done successfully
Remarkable worthy of attention
Overpopulation the condition of being populated with excessively large numbers (EX: having too many people)
Dialect a version of a language which is specific to a region or social group
Scale how big something is
Genius how smart of an idea something is
Effort how much thought, planning, strength it took to make something
Significance how important something is or the impact something had
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