Maya Vocabulary

What is this?

• Cenote

• Lake

• Senorita

• Ocean

This is cacao. What does it make?

Conquistadors.

The _______________ military leaders who led the conquest of America in the 16th century.

• Spanish

• French

• Vietnamese

• American

Dresden Codex is one of the oldest surviving books from the Americas. It contains ____ pages with important information on rituals, calculations, and the planetary movements of Venus.

• 76

• 87

• 78

• 109

Haab is the name of the Mayan what?

The central characters in the Maya creation story and the ancestors of future Maya rulers. What were their names?

• Siamese twins

• Hero twins

• Silly twins

• Amazing twins

What item of clothing is the Huipil.

• Scalf

• Shoes

• Dress

• T-shirt

Maize was one of the staple foods of Maya civilization, an ancient form of _________.

Popol Vuh

The Mayan story of ___________ of the world that passed down from generation to generation.

• creation

• religion

• fortnight

• pop cat

_____________ An important spiritual practice throughout Mesoamerica where a shaman (holy man) goes into a trance to predict the future and perform healing.

• Shamanism

• Mesoamerica