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Mayas

Mayas . By: Wook-In, Sarah, Soo-Hyan and Carolina. Where Mayas lived. The Mayas lived in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize. Mayas Survival. Your every day Maya person was a farmer who raised many crops and was treated with only a little more respect than a slave or criminal.

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Mayas

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  1. Mayas By: Wook-In, Sarah, Soo-Hyan and Carolina

  2. Where Mayas lived • The Mayas lived in Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador and Belize.

  3. Mayas Survival • Your every day Maya person was a farmer who raised many crops and was treated with only a little more respect than a slave or criminal

  4. The Artwork • When the Maya were not working, they made many useful things like ... • Stone tools • clay figures • jewelry

  5. Animals Connected to the Mayas • Spider Monkey • Peccary (wild pig) • Coatlmundi (related to a raccoon) • Rattle Snake yellow head • Parrot • Crocodile

  6. Maya society • It was broken into a class structure with main levels… • The nobility • The priesthood • The common people • The Slaves

  7. Religion and belief of Gods • The Mayas had many gods and goddesses. They controlled every part of life from how the crops grew, to a person’s health to which city state

  8. The Ceremonial centers and the Rituals • They celebrated ceremonies in temples • The temples were built at the top of the pyramids.

  9. The Maya Calendar • The Maya had a calendar with 365 days. There were 18 months of 20 days each. 5 days were added at the end of the calendar year. Writers made calendar showing the days of farming.

  10. Mayan inventions • Mayan inventions include the calendar in a complicated hieroglyphics system.

  11. Mayas Architecture • Maya architecture spans many thousands of years; yet, often most dramatic and easily recognizable as Maya are the fantastic stepped pyramids from the Terminal Pre-classic period and beyond.

  12. References • www.patentednews.com/category/mayan-inventions • www.godchecker.com • The Maya by Petra Press published in 2002

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