2.  On your index card, please respond to the following question:  What do sports suggest about United States’ civilization? Are they symbolic in any way? Is this important?  Based on this question, what do you think we are going to discuss today about the Mayan Native Americans?

3.  Did the Mayans have an advanced civilization?  HW: Read Chapter 7 Section 2; then complete the questions attached to my website. Submit to turnitin.com by 8am Friday.

7.  The emphasis placed on territorial control gave rise to feuds between rulers of neighboring cities and often led to raids of enemy camps.  The need for sacrificial victims or slaves may also have been a reason for unannounced attacks.  During the Classic Period guerrilla warfare techniques included the use of wooden palisades, thorny entanglements, and deadfalls.  Warriors were equipped with spears, wooden clubs, flint knives, and shields for hand-to-hand combat. During the Post-classic era, influences from Mexico introduced spear- throwers to the Maya arsenal.  The primary goal of Maya warfare was to capture rather than kill as many of the enemy as possible. Captives of elite status typically became subjects for human sacrifice, while commoners were sentenced to slavery.

9. Warriors ornamented themselves with headdresses, jade jewelry (earspools, lip plugs, necklaces), jaguar-skin capes and body paint indicating their status, wealth, and power, and were led into battle by trumpets, drums, yells and whistles, and magnificently feathered banners. Their fierce-looking battle attire meant to bring terror to their enemies and the supernatural forces that opposed them.

10.  How and why did the Mayans fight in wars?

11.  You are about to see a series of pictures depicting the Mayan ball game. Please describe:  The court  The Rules  The consequences for winners and losers

18.  Why was the Mayan ball game considered sacred?

19.  Did the Mayans have an advanced civilization?