The Maya

5. The type of writing used by the Maya
7. The number important to Mayan men.
9. This includes parts of present-day Belize, most of Guatemala, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador.
10. The number important to Mayan women.
12. To make the swamps farmable, the Maya constructed raised-earth ________________.
14. The person who negotiated marriages.
15. This person was at the top of the Mayan social pyramid.
17. The Mayan religion was _______________.
22. This group worked in the fields and hunted and trapped animals.
25. The Mayas were creating their civilization at the same time that this civilization was declining.
26. The period where the Mayas adopted and used the ideas they had learned from the Olmecs.
27. To make the mountains farmable, the Maya built these into the hills.
28. The period where the Mayas in the North continued to prosper and continue their empire building.
30. the ceremony that involved confessing, cleansing and reciting the rules of behavior.
31. The area where Mayan civilization reached its highest development.

1. This group came after the ruler in the social pyramid.
2. At its peak, the Maya civilization included large portions of Central America and ______________.
3. This group was in charge of all the household duties and caring for children and animals.
4. Mayans used mathematics and astronomy to create this.
6. Who were the only people that could read the divine signs from the gods?
8. Another possible cause of the Mayas' downfall.
11. Scholars have proposed that long periods of ______________ caused massive crop failure.
13. The ruler, priests, and nobles lived in houses made out of these blocks.
16. The Mayans used this type of agriculture to farm in the densely forested lowland areas.
18. Some historians believe that the populations of the cities grew faster than the Mayan farming systems could _______________ them.
19. Many Mayan gods had these kinds of characteristics.
20. The final possibility of the Maya's downfall is that these people from Central Mexico helped to destroy the Mayan city-states.
21. The period where Mayas farmed the land and lived in simple houses and compounds.
23. This group was at the bottom of the Maya social pyramid.
24. The Maya built their civilization based on the ideas of these people.
29. A ball game where the losing team was sacrificed and their captain was beheaded.