FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
PRE COLUMBIAN AMERICA
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It was a method for irrigation developed by the Inca, based on a system of terraced agriculture.
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It is another name for the Nazca lines, which included pictures of animals and geometric shapes.
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It was the council of 50 Iroquois leaders who met regularly to settle differences.
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It was the calendar created by the Maya, which was based on cycles of creation and destruction
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Long Count is referred to as the “Universal Cycle” by the Maya civilization. Each of these cycles is 2, 880, 000 days long. The Maya civilization believes that the universe is destroyed at the end of each cycle and recreated with the beginning of the next.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reading the Maya Calendar A complete Maya Long Count cycle is 5, 125 years long. The Maya Long Count system establishes an absolute chronology in which any given date is unique, such as December 21, 2012, in the Gregorian system.
Detailed explanation-3: -Any historical or mythical event spanning more than 52 years required the ancient Maya to use an additional calendar, the Long Count. The Long Count calendar is a system that counts 5 cycles of time. This is very similar to the Gregorian calendar system that counts days, months, years, centuries and millennia.
Detailed explanation-4: -The 18 Maya months are known, in order, as: Pop, Uo, Zip, Zotz, Tzec, Xuc, Yaxkin, Mol, Chen, Yax, Zac, Ceh, Mac, Kankin, Maun, Pax, Kayab and Cumku.
Detailed explanation-5: -Using a modified vigesimal tally, the Long Count calendar identifies a day by counting the number of days passed since a mythical creation date that corresponds to August 11, 3114 BCE in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Long Count calendar was widely used on monuments.