1. The maya

3. geography

4. cities

5. cities

6. cities

7. agriculture Slash and burn agriculture Rotating fields
The American triad

8. Slash and Burn agriculture

9. American Triad

10. American Triad

11. How was Corn domesticated

12. Mayan Artifacts

13. specialties
Math
Astronomy
Calendars
Writing
Games

14. Math

15. Astronomy

16. Chechen Itza

17. 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 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?

18. Mayan calendar

19. writing

20. writing
Hieroglyphics

22. 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

23. Pok a tok

24. Pok a tok

25. Other Fun Facts

26. Disappearance from cities
Lots of theories