STS Lesson 2

• Chocolates - In the mayan culture they use it as currency. Aztec valued cacao beans as tribute to their gods
• (Inca Civilization) Calendar with 12 months to mark their religious festivals and prepare them for planting season
• Chocolates were consumed by the Aztecs
• Medicine (India):

  Ayurveda - a system of traditional medicine that originated in ancient India before 2500 BC
• Madhava of Sangamagrama- founder of mathematical analysis
• a period of Muslim scholarship - is called the GOLDEN AGE of Islam lasted until the 13th Century
• Ibn al-Haytham- scientist also regarded as the Father of Optics