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3.5 B WHAT Achievements Are The Maya Known For?: Page 48 and 49

The Maya are known for several achievements, including their ball game pok-a-tok, advanced astronomical studies using observatories, and creating three accurate calendars based on their observations of the sun, moon, and stars. They applied their astronomical knowledge to plan ceremonial and agricultural events and construct pyramids oriented to the movements of astronomical bodies. After 900 CE, many Maya cities in the rainforests were mysteriously abandoned, possibly due to overpopulation, warfare, drought, or disease brought by Spanish conquistadors who later invaded and conquered the Maya city-states in the 1500s.

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3.5 B WHAT Achievements Are The Maya Known For?: Page 48 and 49

The Maya are known for several achievements, including their ball game pok-a-tok, advanced astronomical studies using observatories, and creating three accurate calendars based on their observations of the sun, moon, and stars. They applied their astronomical knowledge to plan ceremonial and agricultural events and construct pyramids oriented to the movements of astronomical bodies. After 900 CE, many Maya cities in the rainforests were mysteriously abandoned, possibly due to overpopulation, warfare, drought, or disease brought by Spanish conquistadors who later invaded and conquered the Maya city-states in the 1500s.

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3.

5 b WHAT
ACHIEVEMENTS
ARE THE MAYA
KNOWN FOR?
SLIDESMANIA

PAGE 48 AND 49
SERIOUS SPORTS
● Typical football = pok-a-tok

● Two teams played against each other in a large ball court with sloping sides and areas for
spectators.

● Without using hands, each team tried to keep a hard rubber ball in the air and get it through stone
rings on the side of the court.

● People probably played pok-a-tok for fun but some experts believe it was also a way of settling
conflicts.
SLIDESMANIA

● They think that sometimes members of losing team were executed.


STUDYING THE STARS
● The Maya were very interested in astronomy.

● They used observatories to watch the movements of the sun, planets and stars.

● They predicted eclipses and solstices.

● There are two solstices in the year.

● The longest day and the shortest day.

● The Maya used their observations to create three different calendars.


SLIDESMANIA
● They used one calendar to record all history over a long period of time and another calendar to
plan special ceremonies.

● For farming, they used a calendar of 365 days, like the one we use today.

● The Maya used their knowledge of astronomy when planning their buildings.

● The pyramid at Chichen Itza has 365 steps/

● Some Mayan buildings have windows for viewing the movement of the planet Venus.
SLIDESMANIA

● Mayan generals believed that it was good luck to fight battles when Venus was in a certain position
in the sky.
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE
MAYA?
● Mayan civilisation was at its peak from about 250 CE to 900 CE.

● However, after 900 CE the Maya abandoned many of the cities in the rainforests.

● Experts are not sure why this happened.

● Here are some theories:


SLIDESMANIA
- Some experts believe that the cities grew so big that they used up all the farmland.

- As a result, the cities could not grow enough food so there were many famines.

- Other experts think that there were so many violent wars between the city-states that some large
groups of Maya were wiped out.

- Other Maya might have run away from the rainforests and moved to places where they felt safer.

- Some scientists think that there was a series of droughts and there was not enough water for the
crops.
SLIDESMANIA
● The rainforest cities were abandoned after 900 CE, but many other city-states continued for
hundreds of years.

● Then, in about 1500 CE, Spanish invaders began to conquer the Mayan city-states.

● Many Maya died fighting against the Spanish.

● Others died because they caught diseases that the Spanish brought with them.

● Eventually, the Spanish conquered all the city-states.


SLIDESMANIA

● However, the descendants of the Maya continue to live in the area today.
THANK YOU
SLIDESMANIA.CSLIDESMANIA

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