Maya 3.0

Maya writing is a form of ___________, where pictures represent sounds

• cursive

• Cyrillic

• Heiroglyphics

• code

The Maya wrote in a kind of tree-bark book, folded into pages, called a...

• tree bark book

• codex

• tablet

• portmanteau

The person who decoded Maya hieroglyphics was

• Zimba B. Zimba

• a 15 year old amateur archeologist

• a veteran archeologist with decades of experience

• a scientist who communed with Maya spirits

Important resources the Maya treasured and traded included... (choose all the correct answers)

• Jade

• Turquoise

• Obsidian

• Cacao

Mayan civilization never had an empire or a single center of rule. Instead they had...

• a military occupation to keep order

• a complete anarchy with no rulers at all

• many city states which competed for dominance

• so few people that the didn't need a government

The Mayan city-states were...

• gardens of perfect peace

• too far apart to have much contact

• constantly at war

• too interested in trade to go to war

Some results of constant warfare were...

• the best and brightest were killed

• the city leaders became masters of strategy

• the people were crowded inside defensive walls

• the Mayans got very good at war

The Mayans developed a ____________ that was accurate until 2012

• wristwatch

• food preservation method

• bookkeeping system

• calendar