SS and ELA Final Mashup

Question 1

What were the four crops the Maya planted?

Answer 1

Corn, Beans, Chili Peppers, and Squash

Question 2

What is one possible agricultural cause of the decline of the Maya civilization?

Answer 2

Crop failure because they could not supply enough crops for the growing villages.

Question 3

What environmental causes made it difficult to farm?

Answer 3

Farming was difficult in the regions where they lived due to dense forests, little surface water (such as lakes or streams), and poor soil.

Question 4

What did the Maya build on the mountainous lands?

Answer 4

In the mountainous highlands, they built terraces, or flat earthen steps, into the hills to make more land available for planting.

Question 5

What did the Maya build on the swampy lowlands?

Answer 5

The Maya constructed raised-earth platforms surrounded by canals that drained off extra rainwater. This technique helped them to grow more food without having to conquer or clear more land.

Question 6

What is slash and burn agriculture?

Answer 6

farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops

Question 7

What is the negative of slash and burn agriculture?

Answer 7

The slash and burn agriculture wears out the soil.

Question 8

What happened to as a result of the Maya civilization increasing?

Answer 8

They drained swamps and cleared hillsides. They also used household gardens in the cities to help supplement the food supply.

Question 9

What were the three main theories for the Decline of the Maya Civilization?

Answer 9

1. The Maya civilization grew faster thank the farming system could supply.
2. Uncontrolled warfare > Possibly from the Aztech.
3. A combination of 1 and 2.

Question 10

What are 2 achievements for the Olmecs?

Answer 10

1. The Olmecs began to adapt their own writing system call hieroglyphic.
2. The Olmecs were the first Meso-Americans to develop religious centers.

Question 11

What are 8 important facts about the ruler in the Maya social class?

Answer 11

1. Highest in Authority.
2. Halach Uinic > True Man
3. Ruled with the help of advisors.
4. Considered a god.
5. Wore a headdress during religious ceremonies
6. Women were considered influence through family relationships.
7. When dead, a son or close male relative succeeded him.
8. Decided when and where to go to war.

Question 12

What are 4 key factors of the Nobles and Priests?

Answer 12

1. Led rituals
2. Most educated
3. Were the only members of the Maya society who knew how to read and write.
4. Gathered taxes, supplies, and labor for projects such as the construction of a temple.

Question 13

What were the 4 key factors for the merchants and artisans?

Answer 13

1. Traveled by sea, rivers, and roads.
2. Trade routes!
3. Made most things to pay tribute to the god.
4. Traded stones Like obsideon and Jade

Question 14

What were 2 key factors for the peasants?

Answer 14

1. Farmed most of the day.
2. Sometimes attended royal weddings.

Question 15

What were the 4 key factors for the slaves?

Answer 15

1. Preformed Manuel labor for owners.
2. Were not mistreated.
3. Were not free to come and go.
4. Soldiers who got captured in war got enslaved and sacrificed.

Question 16

4 important details for the sacred round.

Answer 16

1. Reflects a high level of civilization.
2. A commonly used calendar.
3. 13 months with 20 days per month : 260 days.
4. Each of the days names represented a specific god.

Question 17

3 important details for the Maya Gods.

Answer 17

1. Polytheistic
2. Maya gods were based off of things in peoples lives like corn, rain, and death.
3. Created could influence destroy the world.

Question 18

2 important details for the offerings and sacrifices.

Answer 18

1. Only priests could interpret divine signs.
2. The Maya believed that blood gave the gods strength so they made blood offerings by sacrificing animals, and sometimes humans.

Question 19

4 important details for
Pok-a-tok

Answer 19

1. Had 2 teams of Nobles
2. Every Maya city had at least one ball court.
3. The losing team may have been beheaded.
4. The players used their elbows, hips and knees to keep the rubber ball in play
   5.

Question 20

(Chapter 1)

1. What do you think of Jonas’s community? What words might you use to describe it?
   (Give reasons for your answers onto a piece of paper.)

Answer 20

Example: Jonas’s community is strict because of the crazy abundance of rules. Every family unit is very open about their feelings and dreams.

Question 21

(Chapter 1)

2. What rules and punishments are used in Jonas’s society? How does Jonas feel about
   the rules?
   (Give reasons for your answers onto a piece of paper.)

Answer 21

Example Rules:

1. Must share dreams.
2. No Aircraft is allowed to fly over the community.
3. Must share dreams.
4. No lying

Question 22

What are the two instances of rule breaking in chapter 2?

Answer 22

1. When his father explained that he secretly looked at the naming list to see what the newborn that he was caring for was named.
2. When Jonas’s father said he had tough his younger sister to ride his bike.

Question 23

Why were the rules “very hard to change” in The Giver Book?

Answer 23

The rules were designed to maintain order and uniformity, neglecting individuality.