The Mayan civilization was also advanced. In document 1, there is an image of the Mayan pyramid , a temple in Tikal, the tallest structure in the Americas until the twentieth century”. This shows that the Mayan architecture skills were advanced since they were able to build monuments of stones . In addition, document 2 shows a glyph, symbol, from the Mayan calendar. This glyph is significant because it shows how advanced their writing system was. They used this writing system and record events.

According and document 3, when the spanish conqueror, Hernan Cortes arrived to Tenochtitlan, the capital of the Aztec, in 1519 he was impressed by how advanced this capital was. Then in a letter he wrote and King Charles of Spain describing the city,