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How does the water that you use get to you?
Read the board, is there homework to be submitted?

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Objective: I can describe the historical and geographic context for the rise of the Mayan civilization. I can explain how the Maya innovated to meet their needs.

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Directions Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Directions Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Directions:

1. Watch the video below "Ancient Maya 101-National Geographic", read and/or listen to "Mayan civilization historical and geographic context", and study the map.

2. Then respond to questions 1-4 on 2.8

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Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Ancient Maya 101-National Geographic

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Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Mayan civilization historical and geographic context:
The Mayan were people who settled in and around the Yucatán Peninsula in modern-day southeastern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador and Honduras. The Mayan people have lived in those areas continuously since at least 7,000 BCE where they constructed and organized and complex civilization consisting of many city-states throughout the region.

The Mayan civilization reached the height of its achievements and political power during its golden age in the Mayan Classical Period (250- 950 CE). During the classical period, the Maya built large cities, created distinct art and architecture, and made advances in mathematics and astronomy.

Around 1,000 CE, people started to leave the great Mayan cities and settle in rural areas. The civilization declined and the urban centers turned into overgrown ruins. Though it is not certain, many archaeologists and historians believe that the decline of the Mayan civilization was largely due to environmental changes that resulted in a long period of drought.

Source: Joshua J. Mark, “Maya Civilization,” Ancient History Encyclopedia, last modified July 06, 2012, http://www.ancient.eu /Maya_Civilization/.

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Mayan civilization historical and geographic context

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Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Task 1 Historical and Geographic Context for the Rise of the Mayan Civilization

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Source: Adapted from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mayamap.png

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Directions:

1. Watch from 2:24-4:40 in “Water and Classical Civilizations-Crash Course World History 222”.

2. Then answer questions 1 and 2.

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***ONLY Watch from 2:24-4:40***

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Water and Classical Civilizations- Crash Course World History 222

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Important transcript from the video above:
3:14 The Yucatan is not an ideal place to build a civilization. Most of it is a karst [limestone landscape with sinkholes, cracks, ridges, and towers created by erosion] plain with a bedrock of limestone. The soils are poor and the water table is too low to excavate wells without modern digging equipment.

3:27 There aren’t many rivers and rainfall is highly seasonal, with torrential downpours during the unpredictable wet season and a long dry season. Much of Mayan agriculture was small scale, but it produced enough surplus to provide tribute for the Holy Lords. Archeological records show that by 1000 BCE people were digging ditches to drain swamps, and settlements were built in such a way to capture rain runoff.

3:51 Tikal is one of the major Mayan centers that has over 3000 structures in its 16 square kilometer footprint. It took generations to build and it “entirely lacked a natural supply of water: no springs, rivers, or lakes in its immediate vicinity.” So to supply water for the estimated 60,000 people who lived and worked there they created reservoirs.

4:12 A diverse environment meant diverse solutions to water issues. At Edzna they built cisterns to capture rainwater and canals to connect reservoirs to the central ceremonial complex. They were able to collect 2 million cubic meters of water from runoff. At Palenque, in the lowlands of Chiapas, Mexico they built “aqueducts, dams, channels, drains and a bridge,” to control flooding caused by streams that fed the city. In all these places, water management required a lot of labor. How much of this was cooperative and how much was coerced, we can’t really say.

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Below is a picture of a Mayan aqueduct at the Palace at Palenque used to move water in the city for drinking and agriculture.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:The_Palenque_Palace_Aqueduct.jpg

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Directions:

1. Using evidence from the information you have gathered on pages 1 and 2, respond to the task below in the space provided.

2. Use the example in below as a guide.

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Task 3
Take a photo of everything on Jupiter
Directions are on the board