Religious Beliefs and Practices. Agricultural Techniques

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  1. 1. to support or provide nourishment for
  2. 2. The Maya used their knowledge of ________ to develop a complex calendar system.
  3. 4. In the swampy lowlands, the Maya constructed __________ surrounded by canals that drained off extra rainwater.
  4. 6. ______ was very important to the Maya
  5. 8. In the mountainous highlands, they built _______, into the hills to make more land available for planting.
  6. 9. The Maya believed that ______ gave the gods strength, so they also made blood offerings by sacrificing animals and, sometimes, humans.
  7. 10. The Maya religion was _______, which means it included many gods.
  8. 12. The Maya _____ their gods with offerings such as plants, food, flowers, feathers, jade, and shells.
  9. 13. One of the most difficult challenges the Maya faced was how _________to feed their growing population.
  10. 15. _____ also played a role in an ancient Maya game called pok-a-tok.
Down
  1. 1. The people who were _______ were usually orphans, enslaved people, or nobles captured during war
  2. 3. A farming technique in which vegetation is cut away and burned to clear land for growing crops]
  3. 5. Other typical crops were beans, ______, and chili peppers.
  4. 7. The primary Maya food was ______, or corn.
  5. 8. The second calendar was the sacred, or ritual, calendar called the ______ (TSAWL-keen), or Sacred Round.
  6. 11. The first calendar was based on the ________.
  7. 14. The Maya believed that ________ had created the world and could influence or even destroy it.
  8. 16. By 900 C.E., the Maya had ________ their large cities to the jungle.