viernes, 7 de octubre de 2011

CENOTES DE CHICHÉN ITZÁ

Where is the place?

What happened here in the past?
Cenotes are water pools in the Yucatan. The cenotes of Chichen Itza are very famous. People started exploring them at the beginning of the 20th century, about ten centuries after the Mayans had abandoned the city.
A diplomat from the United States, Edward Herbet Thompson, had bought the Chichen Itza site. Thompson spent the next 40 years in the Yucatán  with the Maya, and studied their language and religion. Because objects made of gold had been found in the Cenote of Sacrifice, he started to remove the water from itt in 1904.
While he was exploring the cenote, he discovered skeletons and sacrificial objects in it. There was a legend about the Cult of the Cenote. Mayan people had traveled from other places to make sacrifices to the rain gods by throwing people and gold into the cenote. The exploration showed the legend was true.
Unfortunately, because Edward Thompson had been paid to do this exploration by the Peabody Museum at Harvard University, he moved most of the beautiful objects to the United States.



Write T for true or F for false.

1.     Before he went to the Yucatan, the Peabody Museum gave Thompson some money.

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2.    After they abandoned Chichen Itza, the Mayans traveled there to make sacrifices.

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3.    People only found gold in the cenote after Thompson had removed all the water.

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4.    Thompson bought Chichen Itza after spending 40 years in the Yucatan.

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5.    After he found the gold objects, Thompson transported them to the United States.

______





Student Book 4
Sequences
English for Bachillerato Tecnólogico 2nd Edition
Julian Thomlinson
Rob Waring
Phil Woodall
Pág. 68

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