Slavery

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Slavery
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Slavery

• Slaves were usually captured warriors.
• They were often
  used as sacrifices.
• This was in part to humiliate and scare potential
  enemies.
• Female slaves worked as servants.

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Mayan Foods
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Chocolate

• The Mayans loved chocolate, they called it the
  drink of the gods.
• Made from the seed of the cacao tree.

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Mmm, chocolate.

• The Maya drank chocolate out of vessels like this
  one.
• Used in some religious ceremonies.

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Stuff to Do For Fun
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Pok-a-tok!

• Kind of like soccer
• And a bit like
  football
• Little bit of basketball too
• If you lose, you usually get sacrificed.
• And, oh yeah, if you win, you might get
  sacrificed too!

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Rules

• Cannot use hands...
• or feet.
• Try to get a 2-8 pound rubber ball into this

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Mayan Beauty
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The Mayans had a very different idea of what was
beautiful
They found flat foreheads to be very attractive
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How and Why

• Basically from birth babies
  would have boards
  strapped to their heads.
• This was done (we think) to make the heads look
  like a piece of corn.

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And just is case the flathead didnt impress the
ladies
They also liked crossed eyes
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And if you thought that Samurai hat was weird
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Other options

• Jam a piece of rock into your teeth.
• Get lots of tattoos.
• Pierce lips and ears.

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More Feathers More Beauty
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Language
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Writing

• Only Mexican group to
  use syllables, not just
  pictures.
• Wrote a great deal about time.
• Only a few of their books remain, the Spanish
  burned most of them.
• Also had a unique written number system.

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Sound Guide

• a
• e
• i
• o
• u
• x

• ah
• eh like effort
• ee like feet
• oh like open
• oo like moon
• sh like bush

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Common Phrases

• Bix a belex?
• (Hi, how are you?)
• Maloob.
• (Im fine)
• Yum botic.
• (Thank you.)