Ch 26
Achievements—Maya Science and Tec Solar Year— days Number system based on 20 Zero Painting Use color w/ paintings Statues—upright stone slabs w/3D carving Embodied tunics called huipiles
Maya—Language Hieroglyphics Spoke dialects
Aztecs Island City Causeways connect capital Sun stone—carved stone to sun god Poetry Dancing painters and sculptors Rich vocabulary and flowery language
Incas Engineering Roads across empire Suspension bridges Operations—called trephination—brain surgery Bright colored clothes Gold is very important, sweet of the sun
Incas (con’t) Music is very important Official Language is Quechan—still spoken today Not written language