Chapter 14 Study Guide
1. How did farmers cultivate land?
2. How did the Maya create records?
3. How did the Maya rulers control society?
4. How did the Maya supply gods with blood?
5. How did religious leaders control society?
6. What abilities were the kings believed to have?
7. What are the land features of North America?
8. What are the features of the Olmecs complex civilization?
9. What are the responsibilities of the lower class?
10. What are the responsibilities of the upper class?
11. What can be said about Olmec sculptures?
12. What impact did domesticating crops have on people’s lives?
13. What is Maya warfare?
14. What is Mesoamerica?
15. What is obsidian?
16. What is one of theories about why the Maya civilization’s declined?
17. What is Popol Vuh?
18. What is the “theory” of how people arrived in the Americas?
19. What is the name of the period in which the Maya lived and moved to the Yucatán?
20. What mathematical concepts did the Maya come up with?
Chapter 14 Study Guide
21. What sports did the Maya play?
22. What type of climate changes does North America have from north to south?
23. What type of people were part of the lower class?
24. What type of people were part of the upper class?
25. What types of buildings did the Maya build?
26. What types of food did the first people of the Americas eat?
27. What types of glyphs did the Maya and Egyptians use?
28. What was the purpose of fighting with enemy cities?
29. What were the discoveries of the Mayan astronomers?
30. What were the purposes of the Mayan calendars?
31. Which crop was the most important in Mesoamerica?
32. Who were the first people to arrive to the Americas?
33. Who were the Olmecs?
34. Why are the buildings and sculptures of the Maya important?
35. Why could farmers domesticate crops and be successful?
36. Why did the Maya civilization collapse?
37. Why did the Maya need forested areas?
38. Why was Palenque built and why was it important?
39. Why was trading among the low and highland communities important?
40. What were cacao beans and why were they important?