6.How did the Mayans use Astronomy?

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6. priests looked to the heavens for guidance. They used observatories, shadow-casting devices, and observations of the horizon to trace the complex motions of the sun, the stars and planets in order to observe, calculate and record this information in their chronicles, or "codices".

7. They had a highly advanced numeral system with place values.

8. Teotihuacan is an ancient Mesoamerican city located 30 miles northeast of modern-day Mexico City. By the time the Aztecs found the city in the 1400s and named it Teotihuacan (meaning “the place where the gods were created”), the city had been abandoned for centuries.

9. THEIR PYRAMIDS AND CITIES ARE STILL BEING DISCOVERED

THEY HAD A COMPLICATED SYSTEM OF HIEROGLYPHS

THEIR CALENDAR, WHILE COMPLEX, DID NOT PREDICT THE END OF THE WORLD

10. With the rise of a variety of highly developed cultures, Mesoamerica entered its Golden Age. It was an era marked by political, intellectual and urban development.

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