6th Grade Ancient History
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| The Mayas made paper from | Bark
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| A Mayan game in which players padded their wrists, elbows, and hips and tried to hit a small rubber ball through a hoop | Pok-to-pok
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| The Priest who tried to convert Mayas to Roman Catholicism and who also tried to translate their writings into Spanish | Diego de Landa
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| The_______ left six-foot stone sculptures of the heads of kings | Olmecs
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| The Mayas used cocoa beans as | money
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| The Mayas developed the mathematical concept of | Zero
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| The area where the ancient Mayas were located is on what is now called the | Yucatan Penisula
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| The Mayan king was known as | the great sun lord and the true man
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| _______________was especially important to the Mayas | Jade
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| The Mayas made a drink from corn paste, water, and honey and called it | pozole
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| True or False Kings lived in palaces | True
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| True or False Nobles constructed monuments | False, it was the Peasants
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| True or False Nobles lived near the center of the city | True
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| True or False Slaves were sometimes used as sacrifices | True
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| True or False Slaves treated the sick | False, it was the Priests
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| True or False Kings spoke to the gods on behalf of the people | True
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| True or False Peasants were criminal or debtors | False, it was slaves
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| True or False The Priests taught writing, astronomy, and mathematics | True
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| True or False Peasants were farmers | True
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| True or False The Nobles were artists and architects | True
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| True or False The Nobles wore headdresses with quetzal plumes | False, it was the Kings
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| True or False The Nobles included educated women | True
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| True or False The priests told fortunes | True
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| What types of clothing or appearance did the Mayas consider beautiful? | Sloping foreheads, long noses, crossed eyes, tattoos, pierced ears, and filing their teeth to a point, took frequent baths, wore perfume, carried mirrors to check their appearance.
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| How is the Mayas standard of beauty different from or similar to today's standard of beauty? | Today people still place an importance on external appearance but have different standards of beauty.
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| Compare and contrast how the Mayas valued Chocolate with the way chocolate is valued today. | Cocoa beans were a form of money and only the very rich could afford to make hot chocolate. Today, chocolate is not valued as highly, but it remains a favorite food of many people
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