Practice question · True or false
The Maya independently developed both a full writing system and the concept of zero.
Hints
- They produced the only fully developed script in the region.
- A place-value calendar requires the concept of nothing.
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True
Why
They did both, the only fully developed script in the pre-Columbian Americas and a place-value calendar that needed, and invented, a zero. Zero was discovered at least twice in human history, on two continents that never met.
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