FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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creating metal tools.
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domesticating horses and oxen.
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inventing the wheel.
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developing the concept of zero.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Six hundred years later and 12, 000 miles from Babylon, the Mayans developed zero as a placeholder around A.D. 350 and used it to denote a placeholder in their elaborate calendar systems. Despite being highly skilled mathematicians, the Mayans never used zero in equations, however.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Maya counting system required only three symbols: a dot representing a value of one, a bar representing five, and a shell representing zero.
Detailed explanation-3: -“Even though zero popped up in different places in different forms, Indians are credited to have given zero to the world.
Detailed explanation-4: -More than a millennium before it was introduced into Europe as part of the Hindu-Arabic number system the Maya were using a zero as a placeholder in their calendar system.
Detailed explanation-5: -Zero’s origins most likely date back to the “fertile crescent” of ancient Mesopotamia. Sumerian scribes used spaces to denote absences in number columns as early as 4, 000 years ago, but the first recorded use of a zero-like symbol dates to sometime around the third century B.C. in ancient Babylon.