They bullied because when the people of Melos didn't want to fight on the Athenians side against the Spartans, the Athenians killed the men and enslaved the women and also the children. They're Losers because at the end of the Peloponnesian War, Athens were defeated by Sparta.
Maya used place value and zero in mathematics.
The Maya civilization was a Mesoamerican civilization developed by the Maya peoples, and prominent for its logosyllabic script, the most sophisticated and highly developed writing system in pre-Columbian Americas, along with its art, architecture, mathematics, calendar, and astronomical system. The Maya civilization developed in an area that comprised southeastern Mexico, all of Guatemala and Belize, and the western portions of Honduras and El Salvador.
It was a fall of the major Pre-Columbian civilization of the time, and probably the only real power in America capable of standing up to the conquistadors. With the fall of Tenochtitlan it could be said that nothing else stood in the way of the European conquest of the Americas.
