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The Mayans

Main Foods

Pictures

houses

Food

Pok-a-tok

Rituals and sacrifice

The Mayan calendar

Social life

Random Facts

Pok-a-tok was a mixture of soccer and basketball

Pok-a-tok was the most famous Mexican game

The game usually lasts for hours or even days

The ball represented the sun, moon, and planets

The court was the cosmos

the ball was the size of a basketball

Pok-a-tok was played by the Mayan and Aztecs, mainly by the Mayans, though. The Mayans played pok-a-tok for religion and to settle wars.

The Main Idea

What the players looked like

What Happened To The Losers

The losers in the pok-a-tok game (and the leader) were usually sacrificed to the gods as a sacrifice.

What Happened To The Losers

"For the Maya, Pok-A-Tok was more than just a challenging game. It symbolized the struggle of life over death, and war and hunting. Pok-A-Tok was often played by prisoners of war and the members of the losing team were offered as sacrificed to the gods."

~hobbylark.com

The Rules

The main rulesof Pok-a-tok are simple.

~Only hit the ball with:

Your hips

Your ankles

Your wrists

The Rules

"The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolkin. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haab to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab, called the Calendar Round"

~Wikipedia

The Maya calendar is a system of three interlacing calendars and almanacs which was used by several cultures in Central America, most famously the Maya civilization.

~Timeanddate.com

Pictures

"During the pre-Columbian era, human sacrifice in Maya culture was the ritual offering of nourishment to the gods. ... By extension, the sacrifice of a human life was the ultimate offering of blood to the gods, and the most important Maya rituals culminated in human sacrifice."

-Wikipedia

they mainly used children because they were considered the purest beings.

Maya Social Structure. Maya society was rigidly divided between nobles, commoners, serfs, and slaves. The noble class was complex and specialized. Noble status and the occupation in which a noble served were passed on through elite family lineages.

-Texas Law

The king was at the top, with councils under, following with warriors, merchants and artisans, then commoners

The Mayan Food Included

The Mayans mainly ate corn [maize], but they also ate other things such as beans, squash, avacadoes, and potatoes. They also ate small grain called quinoa

don't mind this

Although their principal crop was corn, farmers also cultivated beans, squash, and fruit trees. Black beans and red beans contributed protein to the Maya diet. Numerous varieties of squash and pumpkin were grown.

~Canadian museum of history

Pictures

Prehistoric Mayan homes were constructed of organic materials such as a mixture of mud and straw known as adobe, and the roofs were thatched with palm fronds and constructed with wood.

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