Question

Yuri Knorozov identified syllabic signs in this civilization’s script, most sources of which were destroyed (10[1])by Diego de Landa. This civilization used fig-bark (10[1])to make a type of paper called huun (“hoon”). As a funerary monument for a long-reigning ajaw (“ah-HOW”) named Pakal the Great, (10[1])this civilization built the Temple of (10[1])the (10[1])Inscriptions at Palenque. 394-year periods known as (10[1])baktun (“BAHK-toon”) are used in this civilization’s base-20 timekeeping, attested in (10[1])books like the Dresden Codex. Popular misinterpretations of this civilization’s Long Count calendar (10[2])sparked the idea (10[1])that the world would end in (10[1])2012. For 10 points, which civilization built sites like Chichén Itzá (“CHEE-chen eets-HAH”) around the Yucatán Peninsula? ■END■

ANSWER: Mayan Civilisation [or Classical Maya]
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Tianyu XuGeorgia Tech AFurman1410
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