The Maya used two calendars together to create an accurate way to measure the
passage of time. The Haab is a calendar of 365 days in an 18 month period of 20 days
each, and the Tzolkin which is a sacred calendar of 260 days divided into three groups
of 20 day months. These two calendars are used together like gears in a machine in
what is called a Calendar Round which lasted 52 years. There was also a Long
Calendar that measured time over the course of hundreds of years.
0 1 2 3
4
5 6 7 ......
10 11 12 13 14
15 16 17 18 19
In order to build their temples and construct their
calendars, the Maya needed an advanced
understanding of mathematics. As evidence of that
achievement, they developed their own number system
which included the concept of zero, something that
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few civilizations in the Eastern Hemisphere discovered on their own.
Based on this number system what do the dots and lines
represent?