Question
The archaeologist Linda Schele (“SHEE-lee”) popularized the association of warfare events with a glyph that combines one of these objects with a shell. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name these celestial objects whose “wars” name Mayan conflicts. The planet Venus was often referred to as the “morning” or “evening” one of these objects.
ANSWER: stars [or ek’; accept star wars; accept Morning Star or Evening Star]
[10m] This city lost the first recorded “star war” in 562 CE to its main rival, beginning a namesake hiatus. This city later fought a cold war against that rival, Calakmul (“kah-lahk-MOOL”), using vassal cities it controlled in Guatemala’s Petén (“peh-TEN”) basin.
ANSWER: Tikal (“tih-KAHL”) [or Yax Mutal or Yax Mutul or First Mutal]
[10h] Altar 21 in this city, which was initially a vassal of Tikal before changing sides, records the 562 defeat of Tikal by Calakmul. The Hieroglyphic Stairway at Naranjo (“na-RAHN-ho”) records the reign of this city’s ruler K’an II.
ANSWER: Caracol
<MS, Other History>
Summary
| California | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 14.00 | 100% | 40% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 100% | 25% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
Data
| Florida B | Florida A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCF C | Florida State A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Valencia A | UCF B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan A | Michigan B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Kenyon | Michigan C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan D | Case Western A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Michigan State | Case Western B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Carnegie Mellon A | Ohio State B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UC Berkeley A | Claremont A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Claremont B | UCSD | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| UCLA | UC Berkeley B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Georgetown A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern B | Georgetown B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame C | Iowa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford B | Northwestern A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Notre Dame A | Notre Dame B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UW B | Alberta | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| UBC | UW A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Texas A | TAMU | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| ASU | Texas B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Georgia Tech D | Alabama A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech A | Georgia Tech B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Tennessee A | Louisville A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Georgia Tech C | Bruin A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Bristol | Warwick B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Warwick A | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge B | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cambridge D | Sheffield | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Oxford B | Cambridge E | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton B | Durham | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Imperial A | Cambridge C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Southampton A | Imperial B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Manchester | NYU C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Oxford A | Oxford C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Iowa State | Wisconsin A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | Carleton | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Winona State | Wisconsin B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Johns Hopkins A | Cornell B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| George Washington A | Haverford A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| John Jay College | Penn B | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Haverford B | Maryland B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Maryland A | NYU A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia C | NYU B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Penn A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Rutgers A | Vassar A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Binghamton A | Cornell D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| RIT B | Cornell C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| RIT A | ESF A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |