Mayan Civilization

When Mayan couples first married, they lived 

• with the wife's family
• with the husband's family
• on their own
• with their friends

Writing that uses pictures as symbols

• pictograms
• rituals
• hieroglyphics
• considerable

Were considered the backbone of Mayan society because they grew  most of the food.

• artisans
• slaves
• merchants
• peasants

Large plaza in a city center, surrounded by temples and palaces where  religious rituals and other public ceremonies take place

• Mesoamerica
• social pyramids
• pyramid temples
• ceremonial centers

 The people of an important Mesoamerican civilization that lasted from about  2000 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E.

• Mayas
• Olmecs
• Mesoamerica
• Wangarans

Social class that led rituals  and offered sacrifices

• peasants
• rulers
• slaves
• priests

A skill that the Mayas adapted from the Olmecs was a way to

• use metal tools to carve stone
• write by using pictures as symbols.
• farm by using carts 
• hunting and gathering with knives and plows

A set of actions that is always performed the same way as part of a religious  ceremony

• sacrifices
• divine
• worship
• rituals

Related to or coming from a god or gods

• divine
• delight
• rituals
• sacrifices

Which was  a possible cause of the collapse of  the Mayan civilization?

• earthquakes
• floods
• warfare
• hurricanes