Scientific Revolution in Meso-America

• Meso-American Revolution


  (1) Meso-America is the region from Mexico to Guatemala, Belize and parts of Honduras and El Salvador.

  (2) Meso-American civilization were isolated from the accumulated scientific knowledge of Africa, Asia and Europe. It developed on its own and became much more self-reliant.

  (3) Maya civilization was the most advanced Meso-American civilization.
• Maya Civilization


  (1)They used pictorial script called Maya hieroglyphs.

  (2)They knew how to make paper and they created books on long strips of paper folded in harmonica-style
• The Aztec


  (1) The Aztec had their own script and languages but they assimilated all they could learn from Maya society. (Nahuatl script or logograms and pictographs).

  (2) Their manuscripts describe how the Maya performed their astronomical observations.

  (3)They manufactured of rubber and used a rubber ball in the ball

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  (4) Public latrines were found along all highways. And to prevent pollution of Lake Texcoco canoes transported the sewage from Tenochtitlán to the mainland every morning