What Were The Aztecs Greatest Achievements

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The Aztecs were first found in Mesoamerica in the early 13th century. They are known for so many different things like art, land, agriculture,and architecture. The Aztecs were around for 200 years. In fact they were one of the last native American civilizations. One thing they deeply believed in were gods, some of the gods they deeply worshiped were Huitzilopochilt, the God of war, Tlaloc, the God of rain, and one more is Tonatiuh, which is the God of sun. One of the Aztecs greatest achievements is both of the calendars they have made
This achievement was so advanced because back when the Aztects were around they didn't have the number system we have today. For example in Science, it talks about how their number system was called a vigesimal system instead of how we call it a number system. Also, it had 20 as the base number. “Scientists long ago deciphered the Aztec number system, a vigesimal system (using 20 as its base) as opposed to our decimal system. In Aztec arithmetic, a dot equals 1, a bar represents 5, and there are other symbols for 20 and various multiples thereof.” From Science https://www.science.org/content/article/how-aztecs-did-math
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All tho this evidence only talks about the wheel calendar which is also called the tonalpohualli calendar. LIke it says this calendar was descended to include the holy days and rituals because the Aztecs thought that the gods were in charge of planning everything. Also with this calendar tonalpohualli it talks about how it divides the calendar time into equal time for each god. Also the xiuhpohualli “counting of the years' ' calendar had a big impact on the Aztecs because it was based on a solar year. This solar year helped the xiuhpohualli calendar predict when the world would end and helped plan big events like festivals. With both of these calendars the Aztecs are known for how we know