Mayans

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Mayans

• By Eamon Mott

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Mayans locationLived in modern day central
America and Mexico near the Aztecs
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Mayans Agriculture and food

• Maize, beans, chili, squash, tomatoes, avocado,
  pumpkin, and cacao were eaten. They also had
  fruit orchards and vegetable gardens. Chocolate
  was the favorite drink of the upper classes.
  Cacao beans, as well as pieces of copper, were a
  common medium of exchange. Very little meat was
  eaten.

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Mayans housing

• The house was one rectangular room with rounded
  corners, no windows, and one central door built
  to face east. With walls made of adobe and roofs
  made of straw.

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Mayan arts

• pictographs, paintings and warrior drawing have
  been seen on temple walls.

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Mayan environment

• There were not many rivers near them so they
  adapted by collecting rain water to use for crops.

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Mayan Government and Religion

• Maya people all spoke the same language. They
  used the same system of counting. Crimes were
  punished with death. And there was a king. And
  they cherished gods, and gave them gifts and made
  them nice temples.

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Mayan Trade networks

• It depended on your class if you were one of the
  more important people you would trade jade, gold,
  copper and highly decorated pottery.

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Mayan Religion and beliefs

• Religion was very important for the Mayans. The
  Mayans had many religious festivals honoring many
  gods, and sometimes heroes of Mayan Culture,
• Itzamn- The ruler god. No gods were really
  considered the ruler god, but Itzamn was
  sometimes thought as a ruler god.Quetzalcoatl-
  God of peace. Took shape as a feathered serpent,
  but appeared to man as a white bearded
  man.Chac- God of rain.Kukulcan- Wind
  God.Kinich Ahau- God of the Sun.Yaxche- the
  tree of the Heavens.Xibalba- The
  Underworld.Yum Cimil- God of Death, and Ruler
  of the Underworld.

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Mayan Technology

• Somehow the built amazing temples. Without modern
  tools to help them do that. Also, Maya made lots
  of tools out of stone. As well as developed math
  and astronomy with there calendar.

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Conclusion

• All the tribes had one big thing in common, they
  all planted corn and farmed as much as the could.
  Not as much as hunting though. They also but
  there were many different things as well, they
  all had a different sort of leader. Also believed
  in gods not all of the same ones. But some had
  there own. In lots of ways the Maya and the Aztec
  were quite similar, they even had the same
  currency. The Mississippian Traded items instead
  of having money.

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