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What Was The Most Important Achievement Of The Mayans

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The most important achievement of the Mayan culture is architecture because architecture was very crucial for them and it would help them to make massive buildings. It was also important because hieroglyphs could be written on the side of these buildings, and they also created observatories which was important for them to learn more about the world. According to the Mayan cities document, "Mayans had to understand how to construct the large buildings, including moving, placing, and carving massive stones." This shows us that architecture was very important for the Mayans so they would be able to do all these things. For example, carving massive stones and learning how to construct large buildings, which would help them and make constructing …show more content…

According to the textbook, "Carved glyphs have also been preserved on stone monuments called stelae." Also according to the textbook, "Sculptures of kings, jaguars, and other figures lined the walls." This shows us that the Mayans recorded their history using glyphs and without these glyphs on monuments or structures we would not know anything about their lives. This also explains that they made structures of important people or animals like kings, gods, and jaguars which is what the Mayans thought were most important and we could see that by looking at ancient …show more content…

This view sounds convincing at first but, it is not the most important achievement of the Maya, although they developed a theory of the number zero and they had an advanced system of numerals, architecture was more important. This is because the Mayan would be able to use architecture on their buildings and paint them bright colors and have many designs of gods carved on the sides or important glyphs, so their buildings wouldn't look simple and plain. According to the textbook, "Sculptures of kings, gods, jaguars, and other figures lined the walls." Also according to the textbook, "The buildings were painted bright blue, green, yellow, and red." This shows us that architecture was the most important achievement of the Mayan civilization because they would paint their buildings to make their cities beautiful and make them look plain, and they would also decorate them with pictures of gods or animals that represent them. Therefore, this shows us that the most important achievement was

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