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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

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

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

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.

Messengers

A person who carries a message or is employed to carry messages

Causeway

A raised road or track across low or wet ground

Moche

A pre-Inca culture that flourished on the coast of Peru in the 1st to 7th centuries AD

Matriarchy

A system of society or government ruled by a woman or women

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