Maya Vocab

What is Cacao?

• A seed used to make chocolate

• A bean used to make chocolate.

• A fruit used to make chocolate

• Tree bark used to make chocolate

What are highlands?

• Land high above the trees

• Land high above the sea

• Land high above the mountains

• Land below the surface

What are the lowlands?

• Land below the Earth

• Low and steep land

• High and leveled land

• Low and leveled land

What is maize?

• A picture painted directly on a wall.

• An underground chamber

• A basket of food (given as an offering)

• Corn

What is mother culture?

• A civilization that greatly influences other civilizations

• The passage of spoken histories and stories from one generation to the next

• A group of people that travel together

• a movement that focused on the importance of the individual

Slash and burn agriculture is used to......

• Extract stone from the ground

• Pick cotton

• Clear land

• Carve a wood block

​ _____ Is a stepped platform built into a mountainside

• Terrace
• Woodcut
• Codex
• Serf

What is a Codex?

• A folded book made of twigs

• A folded book made of flower petals

• A hard cover book made of tree leaves

• A folded book made of tree bark paper

​ _______ An account that explains how the world began and how people came to exist

• Creation story:
• Geocentric theory:
• Heresy:
• Oratory:
• Heliocentric theory:

What is a Glyph?

• A symbolic picture used to represent a word, syllable or sound.

• A picture painted directly on a wall

• A group of people that settle in a new land

• a kind of clay that when dried is used as a building material