1. The Mayan Skills
By Zach Mohling

2. Skills Some of the Mayan skills are………… • Pottery • Weaving • Farming
• Astronomy •

3. Facts About the Skills ASTRONOMY
The Maya believed the Earth was flat with four corners. Each corner was a direction. Each direction had a color. East was red, north was white, west was black, and south was yellow. Green was the center.
POTTERY
The Mayans were very skilled in the art of pottery.
WEAVING
The Mayans made blankets and ect with their skill of weaving.
FARMING
The Mayans had to be good farmers to feed there village.

4. Works Cited http://www.authenticmaya.com/calendar.htm
Odijk, Pamela. The Mayas. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett, Print.

5. The Mayan Tribe

6. Clothes
Cloths
Jewelry
Some boys wore headbands. People also wore hats

7. Religions They drew gods on walls Built temples for there gods
Worshiped 166 gods

8. Legends
Some of the most famous legends are, Crystal Skulls, Chechen and Chaca. They are told a lot in the Mayan tribe.

9. Works Cited
Magazine
Google
Wiki.answers.com
Clip Art
Clip Art

10. MAYAN'S LIFE

11. Mayan Art,
Art- The Mayan art is based on their religion and culture. The Mayans would work on woods, papers, plasters, obsidian, bones, shells, stone, and clay. They would ocasionally work with metal, but since it was so hard to find, they only used it for decorations.
Plaster Mayan Art
Original Mayan Art

12. MAYAN AGRICULTURE
Agriculture- The Mayans were good famers. They would make paths for people who would make pottery and weaved things.
Mayan pottery
Mayan weaved cloth

13. Obeying the Law, where they Explored, and Events
Obeying the law- They had a ruler where all public life was controlled by him. The ruler was the leader of the Mayans.
Events- The events were hypotheses of what would happen in the future. There is a calendar that they thought would have the right dates of disasters and other things.

14. Recording and Communication
Recording- Mayan religion of recording was writing to keep track of the passage of times to record events. Those people who kept track of time were called “Day Keepers.”
Communication- Mayans communicated by trading things such as pottery, cloths, salt, honey, wax, and slaves. They communicated also by carving on a wet, paved circle on the wall.

15. Explored
Explored- The Mayan’s land was the Yucatan Peninsula. They founded there, and lived there.
Yucatan Peninsula

16. Work Cited
The Mayas- Odijk, Pamela. The Mayas. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Silver Burdett, Print.
Google.com
National
Geographic

17. And there inventions. By: Carter Treloar
THE MAYA
And there inventions.
By: Carter Treloar

18. INVENTIONS Some of the Mayans inventions were Numeric Calendars.
Giant pyramids.
A Writing System.
And Buildings.

19. Facts about the Inventions.
The calendars were created in the year of 3114 B.C.
In 600 B.C. the Maya began building giant pyramids.
The Mayan invented the writing system in A.D.800.
The Mayan began building structures in A.D. 600.

20. WORK CITED
Ask.com
Google.com
Wikepidia.com

21. Mayan Food, Medicine, Crops, Hunting, and How Families Lived.
By Connor McAlpine

22. Hunting, Medicine, and Crops
Some crops of the Mayan were: corn, squash, beans, manioc, maize, cacao, chile, and bananas.
Hunting tools: Bows, arrows, traps, spears, and netting bags. Prey: Deer, wild pigs, rabbits, squirrels, turkeys, and other birds.
Medicine: Hmen are medicine men who used potions, chants, and traditional herbal medicines. Tobacco is a very important medical plant.

23. Food and How Families lived
Mayan food was cooked and served in pottery utensils. Maize was made into tortillas. Tortillas were the main food of the Mayans along with stews and vegetables.
Families lived in houses with hay roofs and walls made of stone or mud. Boys in the Mayan society learned farming from their fathers. From the ages 4-5, the boys stayed in communal houses with others the same age. Girls stayed with their mothers and learned how to cook, how to take care of their house and family, how to spin, weave, and how to make clothes