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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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2 Achievements—Maya Science and Tec Solar Year—365.2420 days Number system based on 20 Zero Painting Use color w/ paintings Statues—upright stone slabs w/3D carving Embodied tunics called huipiles

3 Maya—Language Hieroglyphics Spoke dialects

4 Aztecs Island City Causeways connect capital Sun stone—carved stone to sun god Poetry Dancing painters and sculptors Rich vocabulary and flowery language

5 Incas Engineering Roads across empire Suspension bridges Operations—called trephination—brain surgery Bright colored clothes Gold is very important, sweet of the sun

6 Incas (con’t) Music is very important Official Language is Quechan—still spoken today Not written language

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