The mayas settled in present day:

1.__________________

2._______________________

3. _______________

4._____________________

5. _______________________

(a)  

Crops grown

(a)  

State 7 Mayan city states

(a)  

Title of the mayan leader

(a)  

What is the meaning of the leader's name

(a)  

Describe three ways in which the Mayans tried to please their Gods

The mayan rain god

(a)  

Who organized the division of land and work and ensured that everyone paid taxes?

(a)  

Who  enjoyed fine houses and clothes and the use of jade?

(a)  

Who did the farming

(a)  

Who were entitled to a portion of the crops grown by the citizens?

(a)  

There were (a)   glyphs of Mayan writing

Most were ________ and the others were _____

(a)  

They carved the glyphs into ________ and __________, painted them on ________and then inside _________

(a)  

_____________were books that were folded like an _________________, the pages were thick ______covered in white ______ bound in _______________

(a)  

Hundreds of these books were written containing information on their ___________

The spanish missionaries burned all but _________of these books

(a)  

Name all the things the Mayas developed

Step pyramids were topped with ________________dedicated to the most important _______

The maya made detailed __________of the stars in the ___________, which they considered a story of ________activities

(a)  

Name and explain the three parts of the Mayan religion

In one city after another, new __________stopped, perhaps because the __________________________ (to feed an ever-growing population), or ________ change, caused ecological problems and ____________________________. Cities were abandoned to the ___________and forgotten until archaeologists began to rediscover them from the _____ century onwards. | This collapse was at first confined to the ___________lowlands of the Mayan areas. The ___________region, with centres such as Uxmal, Kabah, Chichen Itza and Sayil, came into prominence as the ___________states collapsed. These __________centres also declined by the _____century CE. It was _________which emerged to fill the vacuum left by these defunct Mayan states, and which was to persist until it was finally conquered by the Spanish in the ______century.

(a)  

Mathematics - base- ___ system, ___ digits instead of ___

Bar - __

Dot -__

Shell - __

(a)  

They were careful observers of the ________, this enabled them to make complex ____________in _____________so that they could predict the ___________for __________purposes and regulate their _________practices according to an elaborate __________. 

(a)  

Desribe the Mayan's appearance (6)

They were _____________of ____________who came to

______________from ______________

(a)  

They ruled until _____CE for ______ years until their decline

(a)  

The frozen _______Straight that separates ________from North ____________, then formed a land ________connecting both continents - where the nomadic groups entered ________________

(a)  

Lived on the Yucatan at around _____BCE

Life was established during the first ___________________BCE

Created over ____city-states

The peak of the civilization between the __rd and ___th centuries ____

Peak power ____ AD

____-____ CE- classic Maya period- the emergence of the _____________Maya- _____________________, __________________________, ________________________and ________________________flourished

(a)  

The term maya came from the yucatan city _________the capital of the _____________mayan kingdom 

(a)  

True or false

Ground water was scarce

(a)  

What was the driving force behind the Mayans ' scientific and technological advances?

(a)  

Did the Mayans have telescopes to practice astronomy?

(a)  

Mayan actions were based on r______________ and c______________

(a)  

What did the Mayas fear?

(a)  

The rulers acted as (a)   between the gods and the peoples

Upper class

(a)  

Middle class

(a)  

Lower class

(a)  

They were skilled w_______ and p_________

(a)  

Singular form of codices

(a)  

Depict images of rulers together with family trees and stories of conquest

(a)  

True or false

The Mayans beleive that their ancestors originally came from the Pleiades cluster

(a)  

Lived ____BC to _____ AD

(a)  

True or false

pok-to-pok is safe

(a)  

State one difference between Mayan and Egyptian script