Mesoamerica

The Maya

• had a system of writing like hieroglyphics that represented sounds and also had a system for numbers

• spoke Nahuatl

• spoke Quechua

• built chinampas on Lake Texcoco

Where did the Maya live?

• Central Mexico

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America mainly Peru

The Maya civilization was a group of connected city-states.

• True

• False

Compared to the Aztec and the Inca, the Maya civilization rose and fell

• first

• second

• third

• all of the above

In the Maya culture, priests were

• not that important

• the second to lowest class of society, above serfs

• equal to farmers because there were so many of them

• ranked just below the king and revered as equally as warriors

The Maya priests were supposed to

• decide when to plant crops

• decide when people could marry

• conducted important religious rituals and ceremonies

• all of the above

Why would the Maya make sacrifices to their gods?

• to please the gods and get a good harvest

• to use the temple

• to establish the power of their city-state

What is a city-state?

• an artificial field of mud and vegetation used to produce crops

• the building where a bureaucrat works

• the great pyramid that stood at the center of the city

• a city with its surrounding territory that forms an independent state

The ball game that the Maya played

• was sacred

• was done by the pyramids

• could go on for days

• all of the above

Which proves the Maya were successful mathematicians and astronomers?

• They built a pyramid

• They played a complicated ball game

• They created a 365 day calendar

• all of the above