Mayan's Most Remarkable Achievement

Decent Essays
Jean Reyes
Period 5
12-13-16

Mayan’s Most Remarkable Achievement

The Mayans have accomplished many remarkable things like, their Mayan calendar, trade network map, and building cities, Even though those are remarkable, I think that their number system was the most remarkable thing that they have.
The next remarkable thing that the
Mayans did was their trade network map. The Mayans really had no transportation to get to where they wanted to be, and they had to carry everything themselves or they could have used a boat to carry things. Also they were able to establish trade routes on land without communication. And they did this for 10 hours each day. Last thing that was remarkable was the cities that they built. The mayans were very

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