Mayas

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Mayas

• By Wook-In, Sarah, Soo-Hyan and Carolina

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Where Mayas lived

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

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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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The Artwork

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

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Animals Connected to the Mayas

• Spider Monkey
• Peccary (wild pig)
• Coatlmundi (related to a raccoon)
• Rattle Snake yellow head
• Parrot
• Crocodile

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Maya society

• It was broken into a class structure with main
  levels
• The nobility
• The priesthood
• The common people
• The Slaves

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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 persons health to which city state

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The Ceremonial centers and the Rituals

• They celebrated ceremonies in temples
• The temples were built at the top of the
  pyramids.

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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.

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Mayan inventions

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

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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.
  

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References

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