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4. Background and Legacy -The Mayan culture has existed for nearly 3.5 thousand years. 2000 B.C. to 1500 A.D. Their descendants account for over 8 million people, amazingly frozen in time… -They are considered among the top 10 ancient civilizations, and YES, they are in the American continent, just around the corner!

5. Time and Space - They considered time as cyclical (not linear like us), they always thought in cycles of “Creation and Destruction”, that would happen again and again. - NOTE: The universe would have been created on “4Ahaw 8 Kumku” (August 13th, 3114 BC), and to come to an end on (December 23rd, 2012 AD); when the present cycle would reach completion. They believed it would end with a great flood.

6. Calendar - They determined the length of a year, with an error of 14 seconds per year, based on the yearly path of Venus around the sun. The calendar complete round was of 52 years. And their months, which were made up of 20 days, acted as a kind of perpetual fortune-telling machine guiding their destinies. - NOTE: Our calendar has an error of one day every four years!!

7. Numbers -Instead of having ten symbols like we do (0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9) they had just tree (dot, bar, shell). Each dot would represent one unit, each bar would represent five units, and a picture of a shell that would represent zero. Mathematics and astronomy had reached a level comparable to that achieved by the ancient Babylonians. - NOTE: The Egyptians and Romans never used the zero concept.

8. Writing - The Maya were the only ancient civilization of the American continent to have a complete writing system. They had an advanced writing system consisting of about 800 glyphs. like English adds endings such as “ed” or “ing”.

9. Money -It really grew in trees! With cacao seeds in exchange of goods or ideas. The highland Maya exchanged goods with the lowland Maya. - Prices were: one rabbit: 10 cacao beans. One pumpkin: 4 cacao beans. One adult male slave: 100 cacao beans (25 cups of chocolate).

10. Marriage and Divorce - Divorce was common and very easy. All it took was for the husband or wife to declare that the marriage was over. Men from the nonelite class typically had only one wife, while those from the elite might have had several.

11. Law - Stealing was disgraceful, so it didn’t happen much. The first time the thief had to be a slave to the victim. The second strike was the death penalty. Murder was punishable by death.

12. Medicine - Priests were also in charge of healing, they were called “shamans”. The tobacco was a treatment of “cure-all”. Also bat wings, toads dissolved in a fermented drink, red worms, blood, crocodile parts, bird fat, and human urine. - NOTE: Maya descendants still go with the “Shaman” of the village. Most of them don’t rely on modern doctors, not even when having a baby.

13. Jewelry - Every man and woman used jewelry. The Jade was their “Gold”. One type of this unique stone is only found in Guatemala!! Mayans were unimpressed with gold. The Mayan word for gold is “takin” which means “excrement of the sun”, you may see gold used for ordinary objects such as fishhooks.

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