Maya presentation
Transcript: The Mayan lived in Yucatan (which is now Mexico). They also live in Guatemala, El Salvador, western Honduras and Belize. The Maya was a Mesoamerican civilization they were noted for Mayan hieroglyphics. It was the only fully developed writing system at that time period. The Maya were excellent farmers. The Mayans had several farming techniques they used to grow their crops, including the slash and burn method, terracing and a technique using raised fields. The method used by the farmers depended on the land. Slash and burn farming a technique also known as “milpa” is a technique that Mayans would use in forestry areas. The process has cutting down the growth in an area, burning it and using the rest of the field to plant in. Using the ashes as more soil nutrition. After lots of years, the nutrition in the soil would be used up. The Maya would burn it down and plant in another area, leaving the first area to grow back. One of The Mayan food resources was hunting. They used tools like bows, arrows and speers to hunt animals for their food. They hunted wildlife like deer, dogs, agouti, turkeys and peccaries. Another food resource for the Maya is farming. The plants that the Maya planted were corn, beans squash fruit trees and pumpkins. The Maya also took the honey from the bees. The Maya had many achievements some of them are Mathematics, Astronomy, Architecture and many more. The Maya specialized in these things. The Maya were able to specialize in these things because they grew a surplus of crops. "The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the peak of its power and influence around the sixth century A.D. The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making, mathematics, and left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were abandoned by A.D. 900, however, and since the 19th century scholars have debated what might have caused this dramatic decline." This passage was written by www.history.com. It explains how the Maya started and ended. Way better than I can. The most important sport to the Maya was called Pok-a-tok. If you lost your team would be killed. The people that mostly played were slaves The Maya created 1000 different dances The Maya calender has several cycles one is called Tzol'kin and the other is Haab'. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in. "The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haab' to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab', called the Calendar Round. The Calendar Round is still in use by many groups in the Guatemalan highlands." Written by Wikipedia. The Mayan calender is made out of symbols in the middle it has the sun god. The Maya calendar also scared a lot of people that the world would end in 2012 because the Mayan calendar ended in 2012 In Some places in Mexico people still talk the Mayan language. There are still 7 million Mayan people living by the peninsula. People still do blood sacrifices today but know they don't do it humans instead they do it on chickens Dead humans heads were used as the ball in the games. There was not just one Mayan Calendar and they did not all say the world would end in 2012. MEN Women Things the Maya did for fun Maya food resources Fun facts about the Maya Mayan Gods Music was part of the Maya's everyday life. They played long trumpets, rattles and drums. The Maya also did theatrical events, dancing and rituals. The Maya wore clothes that were from animals like fur and skin (of there animals they killed), cloth, fabric, cotton, hemp and other fabrics for men and women. It then dries and made into marvelous piece of clothing. "Mayan ceremonial centers were connected by a series of roads. However, the exact extent of the ancient system of roadways will probably never be known because much of it has been destroyed by centuries of vegetation growth and modernization. The Mayans called these roads, sacbeobs. The longest sacbeod or white road discovered stretched from Coba in Quintana Roo to Yaxuna That's 60 miles long. Historians believe that the longest Mayan roads were over 100 kilometers in length. The Mayan Civilization covered approximately 325,000 square miles." This passage was written by www.mayaincaaztec.com The Mayan gods are Kukulcan, Winged God, Feather Serpent, Kinich Ahau, Ahaw Kin, Yumil Kaxob, Yum Cimil, Ixtab, and Yum Kaax. They also sacrificed people for their gods. It is called paying a tribute. The Maya also pay tribute to their kings.
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