https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh Made with information from Ducksters en-us 2018-12-19 20:25:11 UTC 2018-12-21 18:57:00 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Xmastree.png 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316016667 The kingdom is highlighted in orange. ]]> 2018-12-19 20:28:26 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316016667 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316016829 Itzamna - god of fire 
Chaac - rain god and lightning
Kukulkan - snake god]]> 2018-12-19 20:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316016829 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316019131 - built for religious purposes
- familiar pyramid shape
- steep steps on the side to climb to the top
The first one has a temple at the top.
- climbed by priests to make sacrifices to their gods
- most important ceremonies were held at the top
- stairs going up the stairs were steep but not steep to not be climbed
The second type of temple is sacred and built to god.
- they are not to be climbed or touched by humans
- sometimes built with traps, tunnels, and secret doors



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]]> 2018-12-20 16:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316205447 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316455595 - one of the first large city-states
- city covered 10 square miles and was home to about 100,000 people
- home to La Danta which is considered to be the largest pyramid in the world by volume

]]> 2018-12-21 18:35:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316455595 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316456228 - the dominant Mayan city during the end of the Classical period
- home to the Great Ball Court and Temple of the Warriors

]]> 2018-12-21 18:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316456228 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316456533 - began as a client city to the city-state of Tikal 
- broke away from Tikal in 600 B.C and became a powerful city-state of its own]]> 2018-12-21 18:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316456533 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316456890 - they used an advanced form of writing called hieroglyphics 
- they used symbols to represent words, sounds, or objects]]> 2018-12-21 18:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316456890 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316457385 - base number of 20
- they wrote their numbers with bars and dots and a oval for zero

]]> 2018-12-21 18:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316457385 1046788 https://padlet.com/1046788/vv8cnnuz6kxh/wish/316457732 - two types of calendars, a religious calendar Tzolk'in and solar calendar called the Haab'
- every 52 years the calendars would start on the same day

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