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What benefit did the farming method of the slash-and-burn give to the Mayans?
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Where did the Mayans settle in to use the farming method?
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What benefit did the farming method of the slash-and-burn give to the Mayans? It provided them fields to harvest crops.
Where did the Mayans settle in to use the farming method? They were in the rainforest of Central America.
Why did the Mayans have to use the slash-and-burn method to farm? It was hard to settle in the rainforest and the soil was thin and fragile.
Why did John L. Stephens and Fredrick Catherwood go to Central America in 1839? They went there because of rumors of an ancient Mayan civilization.
What two groups were considered part of the Maya middle class? Lower ranking nobles and higher ranking officials.
How were the Maya kings related to the gods? Kings were believed to have been desended from the gods.
What do the Maya's do before they sacrifice a human? They torture them and pain them blue.
What were the Maya's believed to use as the ball for the ball game? They were believed to use a severed head.
What were the elaborate cities of the Maya's made out of? The elaborate cities were made out of stone.
Where did the Maya civilization live ? The Maya civilization lived in the Yucatan.
What region of land did the Maya settle in? The Maya's settled in Mesoamerica.
What were the two geographic regions that the Maya homeland contained? The Maya homeland contained the rainforest and dry tropical forest.
What did the Mayas predict ? They predicted eclipses.
What was the Maya writing system based on? They were based on hieroglyphics.
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