The Codices of the Maya

What can be inferred about Spanish priests in

the 1500s?

• They admired the Mayan culture.

• They taught the Maya how to write.

• They were able to read Mayan codices.

• They did not respect the Mayan civilization.

What can be inferred about why the Mayan codices were burned ?

• additional copies of the ones scholars now have

• written in a form of writing different from

  hieroglyphs

• filled with valuable information about

  the Maya

• representative of Catholic beliefs

Which quote best supports why only 3 or 4 Mayan codices exist today?

• While hundreds of codices existed when the Spanish arrived, only three or four remain today.

• Believing the texts to be in conflict with the Catholic religion, a Spanish priest burned most of them in the 1500s.

• Few people understood Mayan writing at all until the early 1950s, when a Russian linguist named Yury Knorozov figured out that some signs represented specific sound combinations.

• Ironically, he included in his journal about the Maya a few notes about their writing, which helped modern scholars decipher the surviving codices.

How were the Maya different from most other

cultures of the same time period?

• They were more advanced.

• They were the oldest civilization.

• They wrote in hieroglyphs.

• They recorded important events.

Which quote best supports the notion that the Maya civilization were the, “the Greeks of America” ?

• The Maya have been justly called “the Greeks of America.

• Hundreds of years before the Spanish Conquest, they created a civilization on the Yucatán Peninsula of North America that surpassed most other cultures worldwide.

• They were scientists, mathematicians, artists, and astronomers, and they had the most advanced system of writing in the Americas, dating back to 200 or even 300 bc.

• Their writings have been found on standing stone slabs (also known as stelae), sculpture, pottery, and in books called codices.

Mayan writing is the most similar to .

• Egyptian hieroglyphs

• English writing

• Spanish numbers

• scientific symbols

What is the organizational pattern (text Structure) of the text?

• problem and solution

• description

• cause and effect

• compare and contrast

When making an inference, the most important thing is...

• What you know about the topic
• The topic of the text
• The characters in the text
• Being able to prove your inference using evidence from the text.

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• A logical conclusion
• A guess based on evidence
• Both

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To make good inferences you need to...

• read fast
• pay attention to details
• look up every unfamiliar word
• pick your nose

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