YUCATAN "Voices In The Stone"

Video #3

Watch only the Mayan portion of this video.

Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper. Don't forget to provide a critique at the end which explains and supports your assessment of the video.

1. Where is Copan located (in which country)?
   
   
2. How many kings ruled Copan in the four hundred years discussed in the video?
   
   
3. When the losers of a ball game were killed or executed, why was this done?
   
   
4. Why did the Maya worship and respect their ancestors?
   
   
5. In the Mayan language the sentence structure began with a date. What part of speech came next?
   
   
6. How many steps were in the famous hieroglyphic stairs? Why was this an important discovery?
   
   
7. What peculiar building technique or process was employed when the Maya decided to continue with more buildings in the same area?
   
   
8. Why did the Mayans believe that buildings should not be destroyed?
   
   
9. How many stairs were there in the "false ball court" where captives were sacrificed?

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