A stone carving uses picture-based symbols to record a king's name and date. Which Maya achievement is shown?

A shell-shaped mark holds an empty place in a base-twenty number. Which Maya achievement is shown?

Observers tracked the paths of Venus, the sun, and eclipses over time. Which Maya achievement is shown?

Priests counted repeating ritual and solar-year cycles to name important days. Which Maya achievement is shown?

Maya scribes wrote numbers with dots and bars. If one dot stood for 1, what did one bar stand for?

Maya scribes and carvers who wrote glyphs like these had a high place in society. Which group did many of them belong to?

At Chichen Itza, the Maya built El Caracol, a round tower with windows lined up with points where Venus rose and set. What was it most likely used for?

A Long Count date placed an event in order across many years. Which Maya achievement is shown?

Maya scribes carved glyph texts on tall stone stelae in city plazas. What did these texts mostly record?

Place-value math helped officials work with tribute counts and calendar numbers. What use did this achievement support?

Maya priests watched the cycles of Venus closely. What social purpose did astronomy help serve?

Calendar knowledge helped Maya farmers know when the rainy season would begin. Which task did this help them time?

Maya numbers used dots, bars, and a shell, and each place was worth twenty times the place below it. What kind of number system is this?

The Maya 260-day ritual calendar and 365-day solar calendar ran side by side. After how many years did they line up again?

This civilization used complex glyph writing and Long Count dates in city-states such as Tikal and Palenque. Which civilization is described?

A society in southern Mexico and Central America wrote codices with glyphs and tracked Venus carefully. Which civilization fits this evidence?

Maya scribes used some glyphs for whole words. What did many other glyphs stand for?

This civilization used a base-twenty number system with zero centuries before Europeans arrived. Which civilization is described?

The Maya Long Count counted days from a starting date in the distant past. Which year does that starting date match?

Maya scribes wrote their codices on paper. What was this paper made from?