Mesoamerican Culture Vs Mayan Culture

Throughout history there has been many similarities as well as differences in the advances of culture. Culture is an aspect of life that can be defined in ways such as arts, celebrations, religions, languages, in addition to many other features.. The Post Classical Era (600-1450 C.E) had cultures such as the Mesoamerican civilizations, Mongolian empire, as well as the diverse Islamic culture, which were all essential to the stability of their regions and to the developments during this era. These cultures peaked throughout this era, and had many advances that allow our current day cultures to succeed. I am arguing that, The Post Classical Era had some of the most genuine, and overall complex cultures ever studied, especially compared to our

This helps show an important significance to the Post Classical Eras cultures and how they inspired many future events in cultures such as the Chinese, and also helps us infer that these cultures were extraordinarily captivating unlike many of the bland cultures in current day. Another intriguing culture studied during the Post Classical Era was the Mayan civilization. The Mayans were famously known for their advanced discoverings of mathematics, as well as their other cultural innovations such as astronomy, art, architecture, and calendars. The Mayans created one of the most advanced number systems of its time, and was used by many other Mesoamerican cultures and was used throughout a great portion of history. The system worked based on the base 20, with numerals such as, zero represented as a shell, one represented as a dot, and five represented as a bar. This allowed the Mayans to create the first sense of addition and subtraction, which allows us to infer the intelligence of this civilization and its people throughout the Post Classical Era. This reflects to current day society by showing how in current day, we still struggle with teaching many mathematics, and in some cultures, mathematics isn't even

Islamic culture was very likely to have been the most important culture throughout the whole Post Classical Era. During this era, the Islamic culture was very dependent on arts and mathematics, such as Arabesque designs, painting, algebra, arabic numbers, and much more. Islam was famously known for its paintings and their relevance in Persia, which many of these paintings never revolved around aspects of life such as religion or of a place, these paintings mainly revolved around calligraphies, and poetry. As well as Islamic art, math was very important to the cultural success during the Post Classical Era. Math revolved around algebraic number, arabic numerals, concept of zero (0), and the decimal system. One of the most important mathematical innovations during the Post Classical Era was the concept of zero (0). This concept of zero was widely different than how we see it today. During the Post Classical Era the Islamic people created this concept as a matter of emptiness on the number scale. The name zero was also originally named Sifr, but was later translated to the name zero. As well as the concept of zero, math consisting of algebraic numerals and arabic numerals were extremely important to culture considering it was the system of adding, subtracting, and the act of operations benefited the Islamic