Name: ____________________________
The MAYAS
1. List the modern day countries that are located where the Mayas lived.
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2. Why do you think the Mayas practiced human sacrifice?
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3. Describe two painful “beauty” secrets of the Mayan nobles.
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4. Why do you think these rich Mayas would do such extreme things to their
bodies?
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5. Besides having no large draft animals, what two other technologies did
they lack?
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6. Why were Mayan city-states much like those of ancient Greece?
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7. What was the main object of Pok-a-Tok?
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8. Why do you think sports are so important to large societies (Greeks,
Romans, Mayas, USA)?
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9. Explain what Mayan glyphs are.
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10. How do you feel about the Spanish conquistadores’ burning of the Mayan
codices?
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11. What happened to the Mayas suddenly around AD 900?
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12. Which of these theories do you find the most believable? Why?
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