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D. It was rejected by Congress and the President.
Gold, and other natural resources the new world had to offer
The correct answer is A) The development of a written language.
What did the Maya civilization have in common with Western civilization?
Answer: The development of a written language.
Archeologists still admire the way the Maya, an important Mesoamerican civilization, developed written language as a sophisticated way to communicate and leave records of its time on Earth. The Maya were great mathematicians, astronomers, warriors, and had the knowledge to develop a writing system that consisted of 800 glyphs(signs) related in columns that had to be read together to be understood: top to bottom and left to right.
The Maya civilization also developed an accurate calendar to understand time, its cycles, and seasons.
When someone is described as a "martyr", all this means is that this person died for a cause they they believed in, and that their death inspired others to follow in the cause in question, often in the face of opposition.
