| A | B |
|---|
| Yucatan, Guatemala, Belize, southern Mexico | geographic area of the civilization |
| jade | venerated stone |
| climate | hot and humid |
| landscape | diverse: flat peninsula, mountains, volcanoes, lowlands |
| huipil | woman's upper garment |
| falda | skirt |
| faja | embroidered or woven belt |
| cinta | hair adornment |
| cargador | multipurpose cloth |
| camisa | man's shirt |
| pantalones | man's trousers |
| jaspe | tie-dyed cloth |
| rodilleras | short woolen kilts |
| gabones | black woven overgarment |
| morales | shoulder bag |
| tzutes | headcloth |
| Venus | astronimical ojbect of greatest interest |
| Sun | interest in solstices and equinoxes |
| moon | appeared in calendar with alternating counts of 29 and 30 days |
| ecliptic | path of the sun in the sky, marked by the constellations of fixed stars |
| Milky Way | World Tree, the Ceiba, where all life originated |
| Aug 13, 3114 BC | calendar day 0 |
| pyramids | of Toltec design, with steps, colonnades and platforms |
| corbel | type of arch |
| mathematics system | base 20 |
| dot | symbol for 1 |
| bar | symbol for 5 |
| empty shell | symbol for 0 |
| tzolkin | ritual calendar of 260 days |
| haab | solar calendar of 365 days |
| pictographs or gliphs | writing system |
| codices | highly perishable books made from bark paper coated with lime |
| brocade | woven symbol of Mayan identity |
| diamond | shape of earch and sky |
| snake/flower | fertile earth with plants and animals |
| three vertical lines | ancestors, trickster monkeys |
| saints/toads | icons of rain god, later Catholic saints, who watch over the world and make it flower |
| corn, beans, squash | Chiapas crop economy |
| cenote | water filled limestone sinkholes |
| Puuc architecture | rubble filled concrete walls faced by thin veneer of dressed stone |
