Unit 7 Lesson 30.1 Maya Achievements

What did the Maya use their observations of the sky to calculate?

• The lunar year
• The solar year
• The Calendar Round
• The 260-day calendar

What is the name of the longer unit of time that the Maya used?

• The Calendar Round
• The Solar Year
• The Sacred Calendar
• The Lunar Year

What was the Maya number system based on?

• 10
• 20
• 100
• 50

What did the Maya recognize the need for in their number system?

• Fractions
• Negative numbers
• Decimals
• Zero

What did the Maya use a dot to represent in their number system?

• Ten
• Zero
• One
• Five

What did the Maya use a shell symbol to represent in their number system?

• One
• Zero
• Ten
• Five

What did the Maya use to add and subtract in their number system?

• Dots and bars
• Fractions
• Decimals
• Roman numerals

What is the name of the upright stone slabs that the Maya constructed?

• Temples
• Vaults
• Steles
• Pyramids

What did the Maya often place in front of temples?

• Steles
• Corbels
• Pyramids
• Vaults

What did the Maya inscribe on their steles?

• Prayers and offerings
• Dates and hieroglyphics
• Myths and legends
• Names and titles