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Mrs. D Mayan
Study Stack for Mesoamerican Unit Test Grade 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Maya lived from 2000BC/BCE as what? | Nomads (A nomad is someone who moves from place to place; to be nomadic means to move from place to place). |
| Between what years were the Mayan building their cities? | Between 300-900 AD/CE |
| Who conquered the Maya in the 1500's AD/CE? | Hernan Cortez |
| What is Mesoamerica, what does it mean? | It means Middle America and it includes Mexico and the countries in Latin (Central) America |
| What countries did the Maya occupy (live in)? | Mexico (the Yucatan Peninsula), Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. |
| What is a social class system? | When people are divided into classes based on their wealth. |
| What social classes did the Maya have? | The ruler, chiefs, and other nobility, commoners (farmers and craftsman) and slaves. |
| What type of people would be part of the slave class? | Prisoners of War (POW), orphans, criminals, people who couldn't make a living as a farmer. |
| How does the social class system work? | The slaves and farmers do all the physical work in the community. The farmers raise all the food for everyone. The nobility have other jobs (government, priests, army, etc.). The commoners pay taxes to the government in the form of food/goods. |
| What do commoner men do for work? | Most of them are farmers, they work in the fields. Some make goods like pottery. |
| What are corn fields called? | The milpa fields. Milpa means maize or corn. |
| What other crops did the Maya grow? | Manioc, beans, and squash to name a few. Manioc is a starchy root vegetable. |
| What do Mayan women do for work? | Women clean, cook, watch the children, weave cloth, make the clothes/pottery, they sometimes would also work in the fields when needed. |
| What is pok-a-tok? | It is a Mayan sport that combines racket ball, soccer, basketball and volley ball. |
| What is the object of the game pok-a-tok? | A solid rubber ball is bounced between teams using parts of the body but not the hands. There is a stone hoop that teams tried to get the ball through but it was almost impossible. |
| Why was the game played? | The game was entertaining but it was a professional sport and different cities played each other. Since the ball represented the sun it was important to keep the ball in motion (to keep the sun in motion). |
| What did the winning team for pok-a-tok get? | The winning team would get to go through the crowd and take jewelry, they could be offered food for life and they became celebrities in their community. |
| What about the losing team in a game of pok-a-tok? | Since losing the game meant that team disrupted the pattern of the sun, it was considered an insult to the gods and they were often sacrificed. |
| Was religion important to the Maya? | Yes, religion effected every part of the Mayan's life. |
| Why did the Maya believe in many gods? | The Maya believed each god ruled part of nature or the universe. They used the gods to explain what they didn't understand in their surroundings, like earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and storms. |
| Why did the Maya sacrifice? | The Maya sacrificed to the gods because they believed the gods suffered creating the earth and the crops were like part of the gods and the water/rain was like the blood of the gods, so they believed they had to repay the gods with flesh and blood. |
| What did the Maya sacrifice? | Mostly it was dog, deer or turkey, but some occasions required a more important sacrifice so humans were sacrificed. |
| Who might be sacrificed in a Mayan community? | Usually sacrifice victims were taken from the slave and commoner class. Captives after a war, for example, could be sacrificed to thank a Mayan god for winning the war. |
| What happens if someone gets sick? | A priest is called because Mayans believe that the gods caused illnesses. He would use herbs and prayer to heal the person. |
| What happens if someone dies? | Their mouth is filled with corn (for the journey to the kingdom of the dead). Poor people were buried under their homes, the rich (nobility) could be cremated or buried beneath/in temples. |
| What type of clothing did men wear? | Men wore loincloths woven from plant material, and a cloak when it got cool. If you could afford it, you could have deer hide sandals too. Nobility men had loincloths that were woven in bright colors or made of jaguar skin and they wore lots of jewelry. |
| What did women wear for clothing? | Women wore a long woven sleeveless dress. Commoner's dresses were plain, nobility's dresses were brightly colored. Noble women wore lots of jewelry and fancy hairstyles. |
| What were Mayan homes like? | The commoners lived in huts on the outside of town, near the fields. The nobility lived in large homes inside the walls of the city. A commoner's home was made of grass, wood, and palms, a nobility home was made of stone covered in plaster. |
| What is a status symbol? | A status symbol is a show of wealth (or status). Some status symbols that only the nobility could have are jade, gold and feathers from the quetzal bird. |
| What was the Mayan writing like? | The Maya were one of the few civilizations to develop a writing system. Now believed to have begun in 100 BC/BCE, their picture or glyph writing was square shaped and represented whole words, syllables, or names. |
| What did the Mayans write on? | Glyphs have been found on pottery, carved in stone, in codices (folded paper books), and on stela (tall stone columns). |
| Who would have learned to write? | Only the boys from noble families who could afford it could have them taught how to read and write. Most of the population was illiterate. |
| What did the Maya use for Math? | The Mayan math system was base-20, with symbols representing ones, fives, zero, and twenty. Since their math system included zero, it is one of the few that had multiplication, division, addition and subtraction, even with fractions! |
| Who used the Math system? | Mostly priests, they were in charge of the calendars and studying the stars and planets too, in addition to the religion and health of the people! |
| What were the Mayan calendars like? | There were several calendars, one had 365 days like ours (based on the movements of the sun), they had another for religious holidays and a third for farming/harvesting. The three calendars came together on the same day once every 52 years! |
| Did the Mayan count time? | Yes, the Maya were one of the first groups of people to measure time, they even had a 60 second minute, like we do today! |
| Are the Maya alive today? | Yes, descendants of the Maya live much like their ancestors did, using the same farming methods. A tribe called the Lacandones live most like the ancient Maya,though their religion is a blend of their own and Roman Catholic,they do not sacrifice anymore. |
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