Aztec And Mayan Civilizations

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Today i am here to tell you about How advanced the Mayan Aztec and the Incan civilizations were, and some of their major accomplishments. Some of the major accomplishments the Mayans had were Being able to build very tall buildings such as the pyramid temple in Tikal was one of the tallest structures in america till the 20th century. Maybe buildings wouldn't be as tall as they are now without this building i talked about in the last sentence. I think that was pretty advanced at their time because none of the other civilizations i am going to talk about were able to build a building that big. Another major accomplishment the mayans had were there glyphs, one of the ones depicted was part of mayan calendar which probably gave way to the modern

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