WorksheetsMaya Reading Questions
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
The Mayans charted the movement of the stars in order to create ___________________
Clocks
Calendars
Observatories
Telescopes
The Mayan civilization was considered to be
Rural
Suburban
Urban
What were the 2 explorers hoping to find in the city of Copan?
The Sun god
Treasure
Ruins
Snow Leopard
Archaeologists believe that Maya civilization reached its greatest extent between...
450 and 490 BCE
987 and 1024 AD
200 and 900 AD
1581 and 1585 AD
What did the Mayans use their pyramids for?
They used them as storage
They used them to bury the dead
They used them to house animals
They used them as temples
a picture or symbol representing an idea, an object, a syllable, or a sound
Cuneiform
Script
Hieroglyph
Symbol
When did archaeologists able to crack the hieroglyphic code of the Maya?
1890s
1900
1920
1960
According to Maya religion, why did the gods limit the sight of the humans
To keep the humans from being too powerful
To keep the humans from being able to see the gods
To keep the humans focused on advancing their civilization
To make sure the humans never learned the secrets of the universe
what did the Maya base their calendar off of?
The movement of the stars
The movement of the earth
the movement of the moon
the movement of the sun
What did the Mayans call their calendar
Pupohl Vuh
The Scared Round
The Sacred Scroll
The Sun Circle
the Maya were among the first people in the world to develop the concept of
astronomy
zero
calendars
blood sacrifice
Why did the Maya civilization come to an end?
They were defeated by neighboring tribes
disease
the explorers wiped them out
Nobody knows for sure
