What concept did the Maya know about before Europeans?
Civilizations of the Americas

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Kerry Huntly
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Number Zero
How to use horses in war
How to build a pyramid
Human sacrifice
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
How do we know about Maya society today?
Only from Spanish eye witness accounts
Only from Aztec accounts
From the glyphs they carved on stone and in books
From oral histories passed down
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was the disadvantage of slash and burn farming?
It would cause deadly forest fires
It would lead to war
The soil would wear out and farmers would have to move on
When it rained the fields would flood
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What was at the center of Maya cities?
Farms
Pyramids, palaces and plazas
canals
military forts
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
What factors led to the fall of the Maya?
drought
disease
war with the Aztecs
war with the Portuguese
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Maya believed that their kings and priests could
be worshipped as gods
communicate with the gods
forbid human sacrifice
defeat the Spanish
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 1 pt
The Maya build observatories to study the sky in order to
help decide when to use slash and burn farming
decide when it is best to declare war
to build complex calendars
to help decide where to build their temples
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