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Unit
14
14 History and Civilisation

Getting started

Look at the picture and talk about human evolution.

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Look at the following pictures and answer these questions.

a. What is the name of the invention shown in the picture?

b. Who was it developed by?

The Maya Empire

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The Maya Empire, centered in the tropical
lowlands of what is now Guatemala, reached the
peak of its power and influence around the sixth
century AD. The Maya excelled at agriculture,
pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making
and mathematics, and left behind an astonishing
amount of impressive architecture and symbolic
artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya,
however, were abandoned by 900 AD.
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