Enduring Understandings
- The Maya developed individual and powerful city-states, built towering buildings from stone, and made advances in mathematics and astronomy.
- In Mexico, the Aztecs built a large empire under a single ruler and used their knowledge of mathematics and astronomy to develop calendars.
- The most powerful civilization in the South American Andes was the Inca civilization, which had a well-organized society led by an all-powerful ruler.
- Native North Americans lived in places with very different landforms, weather, and vegetation, and each group developed a culture and a way of life that matched its resources.
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