Review: The Maya

Where did the Maya live?

• Mexico

• North America

• Central America

• South America

Mayan writing was called

• Economy

• Dense

• Hieroglyphis

• Drought

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

• True

• False

The Maya had a class system that divided people into different levels of society

• True

• False

Where did the Maya live?

• Central Mexico

• Yucatan Peninsula

• South America mainly Peru

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

Who made up the majority of the population in the Maya society?

• Priests

• Warriors

• Craftsmen

• Farmers

The Maya used glyphs to

• farm swamp land

• fight back against the conquistadors

• represent words, syllables, and sounds as part of a complex system of writing

• help build up hip muscle so they would be really good at the ball game

Tags

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3D

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Which of these four countries did NOT make up part of the Maya lands?

• Venezuela

• Guatemala

• Belize

• Mexico