Question

What was an important crop to the Mayas?

cotton
corn
beans
potatoes

Answer 1

@Singularity678

Answer 2

Corn

Answer 3

beans

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_cuisine

Excerpt:
cultivated crops, including fruits, contributed to the overall diet of the ancient Maya, including tomato, chili peppers, avocado, breadnut, guava, soursop, mammee apple, papaya, pineapple, pumpkin, sweet potato, and Xanthosoma.

Answer 5

The one thing in common from the website and your answers choices is the potato, but to be sure i would check back into your lesson

Answer 6

Actually
The great civilizations of Mesoamerica —the Maya, Aztec, Toltec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Olmec, and others— could not have existed without corn. Called maiz in Spanish, corn was basic in their diet and their more revered crop.

Corn as staple and symbol played a major role in all aspects of Maya life. It made an appearance in everything from religion to mythology. Simply put, they lived by and for corn. Having a higher yield than wheat, rice, sorghum, barley, rye or any other New World grain, corn not only fed the masses that produced it, it fed the non-laboring elite (the nobility, priests, warrior class, scribes, artists and public officials who administrated the kingdom and created its culture).

Having fed themselves and their rulers, the working population had time for road maintenance and pyramid building. Indeed, their work was so splendid that much of it is still standing; palaces, temples and ceremonial roads that, in their day, were far grander than anything built by their contemporaries anywhere.

The Maya considered corn a gift from the gods and cultivating it was a sacred duty. It was so highly esteemed that jade, the most sacred of stones, was used to symbolize it (its green color reminiscent of tender green corn). In fact, according to the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the Maya, humankind itself was made of corn —the gods had tried other materials and failed.