SUBJECT: THE MAYAN CALENDAR AND 2012
NAME _______________________ DATE __________ PERIOD _____
INSTRUCTIONS: FIRST, DEFINE THE WORDS BELOW, THEN, READ THE ARTICLE AND
ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.
1. indigenous _______________________________________________________
2. millennium _______________________________________________________
3. convergence _______________________________________________________
4. bristle _______________________________________________________
5. Mesoamerica _______________________________________________________
6. mystique _______________________________________________________
7. extrapolate _______________________________________________________
8. render _______________________________________________________
1. Besides the books, what also fueled interest in the Mayans?
2. Why does Lynn Garrett say about the appeal of these books cncerning 2012?
3. What does Sandra Crystal say about the rendering of Dec. 21, 2012 as a doomsday?
4. What does anthropologist Susan Gillespie believe the phenomenon come from?
5. Do you think there is any truth to the predictions made in any of these books or legends?
Explain.