Ch 26. Achievements—Maya Science and Tec Solar Year—365.2420 days Number system based on 20 Zero Painting Use color w/ paintings Statues—upright stone.

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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