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Aztec Calendar: The Aztec calendar is the calendar system that was used by the Aztecs as well as other Pre-Columbian peoples of central Mexico. It is one of the Mesoamerican calendars, sharing the basic structure of calendars from throughout ancient Mesoamerica.
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Mayan Calendar:The Maya calendar consists of several cycles or counts of different lengths. The 260-day count is known to scholars as the Tzolkin, or Tzolk'in. The Tzolkin was combined with a 365-day vague solar year known as the Haab' to form a synchronized cycle lasting for 52 Haab', called the Calendar Round.
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Mayan Mathematics: Mayan Math. The Mayans devised a counting system that was able to represent very large numbers by using only 3 symbols, a dot, a bar, and a symbol for zero, or completion, usually a shell. ... The number in the third place has a value of (20)2, or 400, times the value of the numeral.
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Aztec Sacrificial Offerings: Human sacrifice was a religious practice of the pre-Columbian Aztec civilization, as well as other Mesoamerican civilizations such as the Maya and the Zapotec. The extent of the practice is debated by modern scholars.
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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.
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