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Chapter 6: Commonalities and Variations

Something I found interesting were the three supercontinents. Africa, Eurasia and the Americas. All three hosted a bunch of separate societies and civilizations, but since they are in different locations they all did different things. The Americas for example were surrounded by mountains, but it had coastal environments, and rain forests. They successfully grew crops and developed new technologies and survived without any large mammals. In the Americas, the Maya civilization was far more advanced than expected. The Maya had established many urban centers which were filled by a numerous amount of people and had developed monumental architecture. But thats not the best part. The best part is that the Maya's were able to create their own numerical system that was capable of figuring out complex calculations. They also created an elaborate writing system as well as understand engineering. The Maya also created a water management system that helped agriculture flourish in their civilization. The Maya people were ambitious and creative. Another civilization in the Americas was Teotihuacan. It had one of the largest complex urban centers in the world. It was an enormous city filled with plazas, streets, temples, marketplaces, apartment complexes and much more. The city itself is very mysterious, so mysterious that we don't know its actual name. This civilization was one of the largest ever seen. Although it did not Develop a mathematical system or a system of writing they did develop one of the largest architectural civilizations of their time. They decorated each and every building with Mira paintings, sculptures, and carvings. The Americas is only one example of the many diverse civilizations in the world. Everybody is different in their own way and these civilization show it.

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