The maya

geography

cities

cities

cities

agriculture Slash and burn agriculture Rotating fields The American triad

Slash and Burn agriculture

American Triad

American Triad

How was Corn domesticated

Mayan Artifacts

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Math

Astronomy

Chechen Itza

What is the Date The Maya had 3 circular calendars that were used together: the Long Count: an astronomical calendar of cycles of 2,880,000 days (about 7885 years) The Tzolkin: a religious calendar of 260 days with 20 periods of 13 days each the Haab: a solar calendar of 365 days with 18 months of 20 days and one month with 5 days) The Maya long count calendar began on a mythical date of August 11, 3114 BC, the date of creation. The calendar date to the right shows how many days it has been since August 11, 3114 BC on January 16, 2018. The earth was not destroyed on December 21, 2012, but was the end of the13th bak'tun, (a bak’tun is 144000 day or about 394 year cycle). But there are 20 bak’tuns in the next larger cycle, a piktun. Remember the Maya calendar is round, it just started a new cycle. The Maya did believe the world was destroyed and recreated at the end of a piktun—so we still have about 2754 years to go (October 13, 4772). Is that a Friday?

Mayan calendar

writing

writing Hieroglyphics

religion Many gods They believed the world went in cycles of creation and destruction. They believed no beginning or end was definite and when you die you go on a journey through heaven and the underworld before eventually coming back to earth. Legend of the corn people

Pok a tok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pF03BXxUSY

Pok a tok

Other Fun Facts

Disappearance from cities Lots of theories