Mayans By: Eamon Mott
Mayans location Lived in modern day central America and Mexico near the Aztecs
Mayans Agriculture and food • They Planted and ate Maize, beans, chili, squash, tomatoes, avocado, pumpkin, and cacao beans. They also had fruit orchards and vegetable gardens. Chocolate was the favorite drink of the upper classes. Cacao beans and copper were a low to medium trade. Very little meat was eaten.
Mayans housing • The house was one rectangular room with rounded corners, no windows, and one central door built to face east. (to let the sunlight in) With walls made of adobe and roofs made of straw.
Mayan arts • pictographs, paintings and warrior drawing have been seen on temple walls.
Mayan environment • There were not many rivers near them so they adapted by collecting rain water to use for crops. They lived in modern day central America so it was warm and hot during most of the year.
Mayan Government and Religion • Maya people all spoke the same language. They used the same system of counting. Crimes were punished with death. And there was a king. And they cherished gods, and gave them gifts and made them nice temples.
How and why did they build the temples? The Maya build temples for many reasons. The priests believed that the people had to build nice temples for the gods they worshipped the people obeyed and made the nice temples also the priests believed that they had to sacrifice people to keep peace with the gods. They built the temples like pyramids with steep sides and on the east side were stone steps heading to the top.
Mayan sacrifice • The Maya sacrificed for one main reason, to give gifts to there gods for exchange for being “reborn” so the people who were sacrificed would travel to the underworld and then relive life again. The sacrificed would be held down on a block and a priest or a king usually would cut the victims hearts out offering still beating hearts to the gods, the sacrifices were not too often usually to start a new cycle if there was a new king there might’ve been a sacrifice, the sacrifices were done at the top of a temple.
Mayan Trade networks • It depended on your class if you were one of the more important people you would trade jade, gold, copper and highly decorated pottery.
Mayan Religion and beliefs Religion was very important for the Mayans. The Mayans had many religious festivals honoring many gods, and sometimes heroes of Mayan Culture, Itzamn- The ruler god. No gods were really considered the ruler god, but Itzamn was sometimes thought as a ruler god. Quetzalcoatl- God of peace. Took shape as a feathered serpent, but appeared to man as a white bearded man. Chac- God of rain. Kukulcan- Wind God. Kinich Ahau- God of the Sun. Yaxche- the tree of the Heavens. Xibalba- The Underworld. Yum Cimil- God of Death, and Ruler of the Underworld.
Mayan Technology • Somehow the built amazing temples. Without modern tools to help them do that. Also, Maya made lots of tools out of stone. As well as developed math and astronomy with there calendar.
Compare • All the tribes had one big thing in common, they all planted corn and farmed as much as the could. Not as much as hunting though. The Mississippian hunted the most. There housing was similar too, they all had houses and none of them built teepees because they didn’t travel as much , meaning they weren’t hunter gatherers. The Aztec and Maya had the same type of currency, they used cocoa beans.
Contrast They were different as well they all had a different sort of leader and there art was very different. The Mississippian usually made pots and pottery, the Maya didn’t do as much pottery they did more drawings like ones on there cave walls. The Aztecs had there emperors, who would wear necklaces and jewelry. They also had a different form of sacrifice, the Maya and Aztec, would sacrifice people. And the Mississippian would sacrifice items they cherished very much.
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