20 questions
The Maya
had a system of writing like hieroglyphics that represented sounds and also had a system for numbers
spoke Nahuatl
spoke Quechua
built chinampas on Lake Texcoco
The Maya had a class system that divided people into different levels of society
True
False
Where did the Maya live?
Central Mexico
Yucatan Peninsula
South America mainly Peru
The Maya civilization was a group of connected city-states.
True
False
Compared to the Aztec and the Inca, the Maya civilization rose and fell
first
second
third
all of the above
In the Maya culture, priests were
not that important
the second to lowest class of society, above serfs
equal to farmers because there were so many of them
ranked just below the king and revered as equally as warriors
The Maya priests were supposed to
decide when to plant crops
decide when people could marry
conducted important religious rituals and ceremonies
all of the above
Why would the Maya make sacrifices to their gods?
to please the gods and get a good harvest
to use the temple
to establish the power of their city-state
What is a city-state?
an artificial field of mud and vegetation used to produce crops
the building where a bureaucrat works
the great pyramid that stood at the center of the city
a city with its surrounding territory that forms an independent state
Which shows the correct Maya class system?
King, priests & warriors, merchants & craftspeople, farmers & slaves
Kings, priests, warriors, then farmers
Kings, warriors, priests & merchants, farmers
Kings, priests, farmers, slaves
Who made up the majority of the population in the Maya society?
Priests
Warriors
Craftsmen
Farmers
To please the gods, the Maya offered
food & animals
plants & precious objects
human sacrifice
all of the above
For the Maya, what determined where they lived and how they dressed?
How close they lived to a temple
Their place in the class system
How good the harvest was
All of the above
Who was a very important god to the Maya religion?
the god of Maize
the god of the temples
the god of dirt
the god of wind
From the list, pick the two Maya cities.
Tenochtitlan
Cuzco
Copan
Chichen Itza
The ball game that the Maya played
was sacred
was done by the pyramids
could go on for days
all of the above
Which proves the Maya were successful mathematicians and astronomers?
They built a pyramid
They played a complicated ball game
They created a 365 day calendar
all of the above
The Maya used glyphs to
farm swamp land
fight back against the conquistadors
represent words, syllables, and sounds as part of a complex system of writing
help build up hip muscle so they would be really good at the ball game
Most Maya scribes recorded their people's history in a folded book made of tree bark called
a glyph
a book
a stelae
a codex
Astronomers used observations of the stars to determine
the best time for planting crops
the best time for harvesting crops
when to have religious celebrations
all of the above