Mayan

Question 1

location?

Answer 1

Yucatan Peninsula

Question 2

when?

Answer 2

300 CE- 900 CE

Question 3

mayan math?

Answer 3

a math system with base 20 and zero

Question 4

mayan calendar?

Answer 4

Solar and ritual calendar, a month with 5 unlucky days, on those days they sacrificed. They were combined into a “Calendar Round” system, where it took 52 years for a date to repeat.

Question 5

pok-a-tok

Answer 5

played with a rubber ball, ritually significant & very important to Mayan culture, losers would get sacrificed to the gods as tribute

Question 6

chichen itza?

Answer 6

the Mayan’s capital city where they would preform rituals to the gods

Question 7

codex?

Answer 7

made from soft innerbark of trees, they have their written records there.

Question 8

stela?

Answer 8

a stone slab which was used to carve artwork into

Question 9

mayan innovations?

Answer 9

Astronomy, Mathematics (zero & base 20), Calendar, Hieroglyphs, Rubber, Terrace farming

Question 10

decline?

Answer 10

Four theories: Warfare, Disease, Famine, Disaster or environmental change