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BCE/CE |
Before Common Era/Common Era |
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Relative Dating |
Relative dating is based on the artifacts relation to other artifacts that have already been dated.
You could ask if the artifact was connected or found near to another artifact whose date is known. |
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Absolute Dating |
Absolute dating is more precise and accurate. It can be achieved by measuring the carbon level, how much radiation it contains, or counting the growth rings in trees |
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Primary sources |
Primary sources were created in the time the historians investigated. Eg. Writing, artifacts, oral histories. |
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Secondary sources |
Secondary sources are items created after the timeline being studied. Eg. Filmmakers, artists, politicians. |
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What year did the Maya's classic period range from? |
250 BCE - 900 BCE |
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What is one of the structures the Maya's invented? |
Stelae: A structure to celebrate special events. |
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What else did the Maya's build? |
The Maya's constructed many enormous cities with many pyramid-like temples. |
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What was the Maya's daily life centered around? |
Their daily life was mostly centered around their religion. |
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What games would the Maya's play? |
The Maya's would hold ball games, one called pok-a-tok, which included two teams in rectangular courts and stone hoops. Which included religious ceremonies. |
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Where was the large area the Mayan civilization occured? |
In the southern part of the Yucatan Peninsula. (Between Central America and Mexico) |
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What does the fall of a civilization mean? |
The fall of the Mayan civilization was when the Mayans slowly began abandoning their cities, which caused there civilization the dwindle and disintegrate. (And there are many theories about this.) |
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What is the first theory about the fall of the Mayan civilization? |
Slash and Burn Farming.
To create more fields, the soil was cut and burned, and crops were planted year after year without resting the soil. This reduced the quality of the soil untill they were unable to harvest any more crops.
Causes: Starvation, Erosion, Disease. |
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What is the second theory about the fall the Mayan civilization? |
Disease Malaria was one of the common diseases, and spread quickly. The streets and city was also very unhygienic as a whole, which only spread the disease farther. Causes: Sickness, Death. |
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What is the third main theory for the fall of the Mayan civilization? |
Invasion/War Also connecting to food loss, outsidider tribes could easily invade the weakend Mayan civilization, and take over. Causes: Killing, suffering. |
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Where did many Mayans move to after the fall of their civilization? |
Many moved north to cities like Chichén Itzá. |
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Who invaded the remaining Mayans many years after they moved to the north? |
The Spanish invaded them in the 1527CE. |
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What are the 3 types of calenders the Mayans created? |
Solar, Historical, and Religious. |
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What was the importance of the Mayan Expeditions? |
John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood set out on two Expeditions and discovered many ancient Mayan cities. |
