History: Elementary School: Grades 3, 4 and 5 Quiz - Maya (Answers)
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The Maya are best known for the stepped pyramids they built and their calendar, among other things. The Maya civilization developed around 1500 BCE. Over the years the Maya created many kingdoms and small empires in what is now South-Eastern Mexico and some smaller countries in Central America. They built huge palaces and temples, and developed a hieroglyphic writing system similar to that used by the Ancient Egyptians. Their pyramids and their hieroglyphs are both like those of Egypt but the two civilisations are separated by thousands of years and thousands of miles of ocean.
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The Mayans lived in what is now South-Eastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, and the western parts of Honduras and El Salvador
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Coffee originated in Africa, not the Americas
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They had never seen the Egyptian ones so they cannot have copied
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The Mayan developed their own calendar
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Hieroglyphic writing was developed by the Mayans before the 3rd century BC and was the most advanced form of writing in the Americas before Europeans settled there
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The bark was processed into a kind of paper called amatl
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Jade was used to make jewelry and religious objects
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The ruins of Chichen Itza still exist and are visited by over a million people a year
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No one knows why some of the Mayan cities began to decline
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The Spanish first arrived in the Yucatan in 1517
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