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The Time Compass: The Mayas (Spanish)

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Digital map of Central America, showing the borders of Mexico, Guatemala, Belice, and Honduras. Southern Mexico and the rest of the labeled countries are shaded in red. Spanish Caption. Y la península de Yucatán, en México.

Students learn of Mayan jaguar worship, Mayan gods who required human and animal sacrifice, and Mayan mathematicians who understood the use of zero hundreds of years before Arab mathematicians. The intricacies of the Mayan calendar and Mayan glyphs are also explained. Comparisons are made between the timelines of the Mayas, the Crusades, and the European Renaissance.

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Grade Level: 5 - 8
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Episode 4
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Episode 7
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Episode 8
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Episode 10
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