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Aztec Calendar |
The calendar system used by the Aztecs as well as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. The calendar consisted of a 365-day calendar cycle called xiuhpohualli and a 260-day ritual cycle called tonapohualli |
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Mayan Calendar |
A system of calendars used in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, and in many modern communities in the Guatemalan highlands, Veracruz, Oaxaca, and Chiapas, Mexico |
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Mayan Mathematics |
The Mayan and other Mesoamerican cultures used a vigesimal number system based on base 20 (and, to some extent, base 5), probably orginally developed from counting on fingers and toes. The numerals consisted of only three symbols: zero, represented as a shell shape; one, a dot; and 5, a bar |
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Aztec Sacrificial Offerings |
They had blood and human offerings. Humans would cut off a limb or internal organs. Sometimes, even blood-soaked strips of paper were even sacrificed. |
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Messengers |
A person who carries a message or is employed to carry messages |
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Causeway |
A raised road or track across low or wet ground |
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Moche |
A pre-Inca culture that flourished on the coast of Peru in the 1st to 7th centuries AD |
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Matriarchy |
A system of society or government ruled by a woman or women |
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Patriarchy |
A system of society or government in which the father or eldest male is head of the family and descent is traced through the male line |