Mayans

By: Eamon Mott

Mayans locationLived in modern day central

America and Mexico near the Aztecs

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.

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.

Mayan arts

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

Mayan environment

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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