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The Maya
Created by Hannah and
Lucy B.
The Maya
About 2300 years ago, a group called The Maya were around. They were a very ancient tribe and were forlward thinking. They were very intelligent people and they knew lots about science.
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A Farmers life
Most Mayan were farmers and worked nearly all day. It was always very hard and clammy work. Normally, farmers wake up when it is dawn and the birds are chirping to go to works. They then finish at dusk when the owls are tweeting. A farmers life is bassically working all day - dawn till dusk.
A Farmers life
Pok-a-Tok
Poc-a-Tok is a game that the Maya played. It was a intense game; nobody wanted to lose because if you did you would be decapitated and sacrificed to the Gods. Sometime tough, if you won it would be an hounor to be sacrificed to the Gods. It was an unusual game though because you couldn't use your hands
and feet only: elbows, knees, hips and thies.
Pok-a-Tok
Video of Pok-a-Tok
Video of Pok-a-Tok
https://youtu.be/jKvQjgC9sIY
Mayan number system
The Mayan number system is a base of 20 instead of 10 like normal. The Maya number system is a vertical place value system. A zero is a shell, one is a dot and five is a line.
Number
system
Numbers
Numbers
A video of Mayan maths.
https://youtu.be/JaV5M4_iaUw
Maya gods
Maya gods
The Maya believed in lots of different gods. They believed that the gods could change from an animal form to a human form. The gods were so important to them that the preists even preformed ceremonies for them and sacrifices. Did you know that the Maya believed in over 150 gods? Here are some of the gods: Yum Kaax, Itzamn, Chac, Buluc Chabtan and Ah Puch. All gods have a good side and a bad side, connecting them to either the under world and afterlife or the heavens. Did you know that mothers would hang beads between their babies eyes so they would become cross-eyed to look like the gods? No Mayan god looks the same or has the same name they are all different.
Mayan Calendar
Mayan Calendar
The Mayan calendar is highly complex and is poorly understood. The calender is 3 interlocking cycles, 20 names, 260 day normal year, 13 numbers and a 365 day solar year. Every 52 years, the 3 cycles will line up. It was basically a once in a life time oppertunity to see it! Time was extremely important to the Maya, they made a detailed and accurate calendars, using the sun, the moon, stars and even planets.
Videos about the mayan calendar.
https://youtu.be/qhWItvjk9Yg
https://youtu.be/BeE-3BBqG58
Pyramids
Pyramids
Mayan cities were not planed and built in stages. In fact, they were built in a higgledy-piggledy fashion. They were packed with lots of pyramids and temples. Tall-stepped pyramids were built to support Mayan temples. The mayan wanted them so they could be reaching to the skies to be as close to the upper world as possible. Also the tall-stepped pyramids were linked to the gods. At the very top of the pyramids they would hold sacrifice ceramonys to the gods. They would use: Pok-a-Tok losers, captins of each team and stolen slaves for sacrifices. They would do this to make the gods happy. For the sacrifce they would decapatate the victim and them use it's blood for the gods. After this they will through the body into the sink hole.
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza means 'At the mouth of the well Itza'. It is the most important city in Yuctan from the 10-12 century. A Pyramid is 98 foot tall and dominates the whole city. Chichen Itza is full of beautiful carving on: building, sculptures, pyramids and temples. The Chichen Itza ball court is about the same size as the Wembly football pitch! Magically, if you whisper at one end of the court, someone at the other end of the court will hear you.
Located in Yucatan, Chichen Itza was a large city. It thrived from about 600 AD, until 1221. Chichen Itza may have been built where it was because of the location of two large natural sink holes nearby that would have provided water through-out the year. One of these sink holes was used as a place of human sacrifice. These sacrifices were made to make the gods happy. After the sacrifce, the body of the victim would be trown into the sink hole. All the buildings of Chichen Itza are made from stone ( mainly lime stone). Some of the most famous buildings in Chichen Itza that have survived are: The Warrior's Temple, El Castillo, and The Great Ball Court.
Conclusion
Conclusion
In conclusion, the maya are very unique and have weird but intresting number systems. They also had
a hard calendar system.