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Map of the Yucatan Peninsula
Mayan Civilization 300-900 CE
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Hierarchy of a City State
Leader/ "Royalty"
----------Nobility
-----------Citizens
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Halach Uinic
("True Man")
Chiefs
High Priest
Priests
Memba Uinicoob (common people)
Pentacoob (slaves)
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Responsibilities of a Priest:
-led all religious
ceremonies and rituals
-Served as doctors, teachers, and oracles
----------Priests were the only members of society to
understand the mysteries of astronomy,
mathematics, and the calendar
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Why did their knowledge of astronomy and the
calendar make priests so important in Mayan
society?
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Daily Life
Mayans lived by farming and
trading. Their maize (corn) fields
were known as milpas.
The Maya practiced
"slash and burn"
agriculture.
This practice led to soil exhaustion and
forced the Mayans to move around every
few years.
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The staple crop in the Mayan diet was
Maize.
Also raised kidney beans, squash and
avocados.
Domesticated animals such as dog, duck,
dove, partridge and turkey.
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Canopy Hunting
Cleared out specific plants from the
jungle but made sure certain layers of
the canopy survived.
Why?
Clearing the undergrowth made it easier to travel
through the jungle.
By leaving the upper canopies
intact, Mayans were able to
maintain an additional food source
of the canopy dwellers.
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Next Time:
We will learn what makes a
Mayan "beautiful," what a "day
in the life" was like, and how to
play pok-a-tok
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Use QRafter to scan one of the QR
Codes around the room for a 360'
view of a location.
e/H
Ticket to Leav
omework
Imagine that someone has gone back in
time and arrived at your scanned location
in 735 CE. What would they see? What
would people be doing? Why do you think
this is?
Type I, at least 6 lines.
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