Compare and contrast the Aztec civilization and the Mayan civilization.

The Aztecs civilization and the Mayan civilization where the most important civilizations from the new world that amazed many of the Europeans that came to conquer this wonderful rich land. The Europeans where amazed with the Aztec and Mayan culture, their ways of life, their geographical surroundings and their technology. The Europeans and historians today find that the Aztecs and the Mayans where similar in some ways of life like their culture, their technology, their …

…only four have survived to modern times." (Michael D. Coe, The Maya, London: Thames and Hudson, 4th ed., 1987 p. 161) One of the mayor contributions of the Mayan to the numbers we use today is the number zero. The Mayas were great with mathematics and with numbers. Early inscription tell us that they would sum up to the hundreds of millions. They also produced extremely accurate astronomical observations like the movements of the sun and planets.