| A | B |
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| Where did Maya nobility live? | In the cities near the king. |
What was a codex?,  | It was a very old Mayan book written by hand. |
| How did the Maya rule themselves? | Each city had a king. |
| Why was it so difficult to built the Maya buildings? | They had no metal tools nor pack animals. |
Did the Maya perform multiplication and division?,  | They do not know. Their mathematics could handle it however. |
What was the Long Count?,  | It was the measure of the passage of time. |
| What was wrong with the rain forest floor? | It was poor for farming because it lacked nutirents. |
| True or False: The Maya had metal tools. | False |
| True or False:The Maya had no pack animals. | True |
| True or False: The Maya developed the only written language in the Americas | True |
| what is a drought? | It is a period of little or no rain. |
What does the term elite mean?,  | It is a small group of highly advantaged people. |
| Why did the Maya use slash and burn | To clear land and add nutrients to the soil...like a fertilizer. |
| Who needed to sacrifice their blood? | The king as well as all Mayans. |
| Who were the elite people of society? | They were the wealthy nobles born into the aristocracy class. |
| What was a stela? | It was a pillar carved with glyps and the head of a person or animal. |
| What were possible causes for the Maya civilization collapse? | Famine, drought, disease, warefare. |
| Maya hieroglyphs would most easily be found where: | Glyphs can be best found as carvings in stone,,  |
| What is a long period with no rain? | A drought. |
| What is a long period with little or no food? | Hard...It's just plain difficult isn't it? It's called a famine. |
| Now that you know what it took to be a Mayan king or Queen...How many would want to be one? | Not many of us. Surely not me. |
