The Mayans

The Mayans discovered or invented all of the following except:

• chocolate
• rotating crops
• the wheel
• the use of the number “0”

This passage mostly describes the Mayans in terms of

• their arts and festivals.
• why their civilization ended
• how they assigned jobs
• what they did and accomplished.

Which of these Mayan accomplishments probably had the biggest impact on building their civilization?

• farming and raising animals
• making chocolate
• writing with word-pictures
• painting murals
  

Read the following sentences: “Nobles lived in beautiful houses. Their architecture was splendid.”  The word splendid means

• wonderful, magnificent
• expensive, costly
• simple, basic
• terrible, ugly
  

The main idea of this passage is that

• the Mayans lived exactly like Europeans did at the time
• the Mayans were an advanced civilization for their time
• the Mayans were unaware of modern science and technology
• the Mayans disappeared and left no history behind.