This week we discussed the Maya's intelligence. The Maya were actually highly intelligent for being such an ancient civilization. They had a written form of communication and a numerical system for recording numbers. There number system is really cool and I am rather surprised at how well it is for being so primitive. However, it is vegisimal and that part makes it a bit tough to figure out. The number system I know and use is based on units of 10 but the Maya used 20 as their unit. However, it is still a cool system and I can't believe how well it works. I hope to learn a bit more about their writings though. Unfortunately, they use symbols and they aren't consistent enough to be easily interpreted. The Maya are (not all that surprisingly) a very interesting and intelligent civilization.
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