Mayan Civilization

Yucatan Peninsula

• A land form surrounded on three sides by water.
• Tikal.
• The Mayans were able to create a detailed calendar because of their advancements in astronomy and mathematics.
• Mayan people tried to please the gods.
• City-states ruled by kings.

Currency in Mayan culture

• Cocoa bean.
• A land form surrounded on three sides by water.
• Tikal.
• The Mayans were able to create a detailed calendar because of their advancements in astronomy and mathematics.
• Mayan people tried to please the gods.

Slash and Burn agriculture

• A type of agriculture practiced by the Mayans involving cutting down trees and burning them to fertilize the soil.
• Cocoa bean.
• A land form surrounded on three sides by water.
• Tikal.
• The Mayans were able to create a detailed calendar because of their advancements in astronomy and mathematics.

Three Sisters crops

• Corn, Beans, and Squash.
• A type of agriculture practiced by the Mayans involving cutting down trees and burning them to fertilize the soil.
• Cocoa bean.
• A land form surrounded on three sides by water.
• Tikal.

City-State

• The main form of Mayan government, each ruled by a King.
• Corn, Beans, and Squash.
• A type of agriculture practiced by the Mayans involving cutting down trees and burning them to fertilize the soil.
• Cocoa bean.
• A land form surrounded on three sides by water.

Human sacrifice in Mayan culture

• The Mayans made offerings sometimes involving human sacrifice.
• The main form of Mayan government, each ruled by a King.
• Corn, Beans, and Squash.
• A type of agriculture practiced by the Mayans involving cutting down trees and burning them to fertilize the soil.
• Cocoa bean.

Concept of zero

• An advanced mathematical concept studied by the Mayans.
• The Mayans made offerings sometimes involving human sacrifice.
• The main form of Mayan government, each ruled by a King.
• Corn, Beans, and Squash.
• A type of agriculture practiced by the Mayans involving cutting down trees and burning them to fertilize the soil.

Reasons for the decline of Mayan Cities

• Population growth made cities overcrowded, volcano eruption, increasing wars against neighboring city-states, ruined forests from slash and burn agriculture, rivers drying up.
• An advanced mathematical concept studied by the Mayans.
• The Mayans made offerings sometimes involving human sacrifice.
• The main form of Mayan government, each ruled by a King.
• Corn, Beans, and Squash.

Primary writing system of the Mayans

• Hieroglyphics.
• Population growth made cities overcrowded, volcano eruption, increasing wars against neighboring city-states, ruined forests from slash and burn agriculture, rivers drying up.
• An advanced mathematical concept studied by the Mayans.
• The Mayans made offerings sometimes involving human sacrifice.
• The main form of Mayan government, each ruled by a King.

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Staple food in the Mayan diet

• Maize.
• Hieroglyphics.
• Population growth made cities overcrowded, volcano eruption, increasing wars against neighboring city-states, ruined forests from slash and burn agriculture, rivers drying up.
• An advanced mathematical concept studied by the Mayans.
• The Mayans made offerings sometimes involving human sacrifice.