Month: October 2015

Mayan ballgame assignment

The Mayan Ballgame

 

How did the Mayans play this ancient game? The Mayans played the game by trying to get a ball though a goal without using their hands or feet. The ball they used was a rubber ball that weighed 8 to 15 pounds! The ball was able to bruise or even break bones of the players. Players wore some protective clothes to make it easier to hit the ball without getting hurt. They also wore the clothes to decorate themselves in the game. The court area was shaped like an “I”. The long section of the “I” is the playing area and it had the goals at each end.

 

The game was also a religious ritual. At the end of the game, the losing team’s captain would be decapitated as a sacrifice to the gods. The court had an area for sacrifice so it would be convenient to perform the ritual at the end of the game.

Daily Life-Writing and Education

What did scribes do?

 

  • Scribes helped keep track at granaries
  • Scribes also kept track of military tracking of what happened.
  • Scribes wrote about the things what the pharaoh didWhat was school like?
  • Scribes took ten years of hard work to become scribes.
  • The teachers were harsh to students if they didn’t want to learn
  • An average day was rewriting hieroglyphics over and over How did Scribes learn the writing system?
  • For the first years of school they used clay tablets to write
  • The last six years scribes used papyrus to write on (our paper)
  • Scribes also learned a simple version of hieroglyphics for everyday things like record keeping
  • What was a Scribe’s social position?
  • Scribes were among the wealthier people in the social structure
  • Scribes had lots of the advantages but they didn’t have much power
  • Scribes were very respected by other people in ancient Egypt
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