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    STS Module2Activity Bermeo HM-1B

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    The Mayan civilization made the greatest contributions to sustainable technology of the three major Mesoamerican civilizations. As the first major civilization in Mesoamerica, the Mayans developed an advanced society with art, science, architecture, and writing without external influences. Two key examples of their sustainable technologies are their development of crop tools and hydraulic systems to farm effectively in rough terrain, and their sophisticated astronomy theories that calculated planetary cycles and seasons with remarkable accuracy rivaling modern calendars. Their agricultural and astronomical knowledge guided sustainable practices for thousands of years.

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    The Mayan civilization made the greatest contributions to sustainable technology of the three major Mesoamerican civilizations. As the first major civilization in Mesoamerica, the Mayans developed an advanced society with art, science, architecture, and writing without external influences. Two key examples of their sustainable technologies are their development of crop tools and hydraulic systems to farm effectively in rough terrain, and their sophisticated astronomy theories that calculated planetary cycles and seasons with remarkable accuracy rivaling modern calendars. Their agricultural and astronomical knowledge guided sustainable practices for thousands of years.

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    The Mayan civilization made the greatest contributions to sustainable technology of the three major Mesoamerican civilizations. As the first major civilization in Mesoamerica, the Mayans developed an advanced society with art, science, architecture, and writing without external influences. Two key examples of their sustainable technologies are their development of crop tools and hydraulic systems to farm effectively in rough terrain, and their sophisticated astronomy theories that calculated planetary cycles and seasons with remarkable accuracy rivaling modern calendars. Their agricultural and astronomical knowledge guided sustainable practices for thousands of years.

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    The Mayan civilization made the greatest contributions to sustainable technology of the three major Mesoamerican civilizations. As the first major civilization in Mesoamerica, the Mayans developed an advanced society with art, science, architecture, and writing without external influences. Two key examples of their sustainable technologies are their development of crop tools and hydraulic systems to farm effectively in rough terrain, and their sophisticated astronomy theories that calculated planetary cycles and seasons with remarkable accuracy rivaling modern calendars. Their agricultural and astronomical knowledge guided sustainable practices for thousands of years.

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    Name: Bermeo, Desiree D.

    Date: 9/22/22
    Course, year & section:HM-1B

    THINK ABOUT THIS

    1. Among the Mayan, Aztec, and Incan people, whom do you think has the
    great contributions to sustainable technology from past to present, give at
    least two examples and comprehensively explain why?

    After reading all the information about the three civilizations, I believe the Mayan
    civilization has made the greatest contribution to sustainable technology of the three. As
    the Mayans were Mesoamerica's first major civilization, they were also the ones who
    developed several technological contributions such as a highly sophisticated society
    with art, science, architecture, and writing, which still amazes me because as the first
    civilization, there are no traces or instructions they can follow to invent, create, or
    sustain this kind of technological innovations.
    A team of anthropologists led by Dr. George Bey discovered the Lost Maya
    during the Quest for the Lost Maya, where they found out that the Maya may have lived
    in the Yucatan as early as 500 BCE. This new evidence suggests that the Maya of
    Yucatan had an overly complex social structure, distinct religious practices, and unique
    technological innovations that enabled civilization to thrive in the harsh jungle.
    The first example of the Mayans' contributions to sustainable technology would
    be their development of various crop tools and their hydraulic system, which had a
    significant impact on their civilizations. According to the researchers' extensive
    excavations, they discovered how the Mayans survived their daily lives despite their
    homeland being rough, rocky terrain with wetlands. Several types of research at the
    time revealed that Mayans built canals between wetlands to divert water and create new
    farmland with the help of crop tools they invented, and as they mucked out the ditches,
    they would toss the soil into the adjacent land, creating elevated fields that protect their
    crops from waterlogged soil while allowing access to irrigation water. This made it
    easier for the Mayans to farm and was a true innovation in Mesoamerica as a whole.
    The next example would be their astronomy theories, in which they studied the
    heavenly bodies and recorded data on the development of the sun, moon, venus, and
    stars. Even though the Haab year had only 365 days, they knew that a year was slightly
    longer than 365 days, calculating it to be 365.2420 days compared to the true
    approximation of 365.2422. This is more precise than the Gregorian calendar's estimate
    of 365.2425, implying that the Maya calendar was more accurate than ours. Maya
    astronomers calculated those 81 lunar months equaled 2,392 days. This gives the lunar
    month a length of 29.5308 days, which is astonishingly close to the modern estimate of
    29.53059 days. They also calculated Venus's 584-day cycle with only a two-hour
    difference. The Maya studied Jupiter, Mars, and Mercury, noting celestial phenomena
    such as obscuration and the path of one planet in front of the other. Maya astronomers
    were far more accurate than their European counterparts.
    The planting cycles of corn, the Maya staple crop, have been guided by careful
    astronomical observations. Maya farmers today use their knowledge of the sky to plan
    the agricultural cycle of corn and the best times to conduct offerings and ceremonies, in
    much the same way that their ancient ancestors observed the movements of the Sun
    along the horizon and watched for the appearance of certain constellations in the east.
    Over thousands of years of observing the natural cycles that connect Earth and the sky,
    the Maya developed a worldview of the Universe in which time is cyclical and everything
    is interconnected.

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