Maya Daily life and Religion

Maya Daily life and Religion

Open Ended

What is something you remember about the Mayas that we have learned in the past few days?

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Notes: Remember the format 

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RED: Write down exactly what you see

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Yellow: Write in your own words what you see 

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Green: Do not have to write down

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​Women worked at home​

- Mothers and daughters prepared and cooked the food

- Pounded and grinded corn into cornmeal and tortillas and tamales  

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On special days, the family might also have hot chocolate, a drink the made from cacao (kuh-KAY-oh) beans.

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Men worked outside the home​

- Fathers and sons working in the fields with the crops

- Hunted and trapped animals 

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Multiple Choice

Mayan men and women had the same jobs.

• True

• False

​- Maya religion was polytheistic (many gods) - the primary Maya gods were forces or objects in nature that affected people's daily lives, such as rain, corn, and death. - believed that the gods had created the world and could influence or even destroy it.

- honored their gods with offerings such as plants, food, flowers, feathers, jade, and shells. 

-  believed that blood gave the gods strength, so they also made blood offerings by sacrificing animals and, sometimes, humans. 

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​Every Maya city had at least one ball court.  Two teams of nobles who tried to hit a solid rubber ball through a stone ring by using their leather-padded elbows, wrists, and hips. People from all levels of Maya society attended the popular sporting event.  Surviving art shows members of the losing team being sacrificed and the captain of the defeated team being beheaded.