Just as the first attempts at writing came long after the development of speech, so the first efforts at the graphical representation of numbers came long after people had learned how to count. Probably the earliest way of keeping record of a count was by some tally system involving physical objects such as pebbles or sticks.
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the highest Mayan number is 7999
The Mayan symbol for number five is a horizontal bar.
Yes. Even so, that the Mayan numeral system was much more complex than the decimal system we use now: Maya numerals were a vigesimal (base twenty) numeral system.
Tribe 1 Liabala tribe Tribe 2 Yakima tribe
The Mayan did have an irragation system. Look up terrace farming.