Word Root of NATIVE. The Latin word nÄscÄ«, meaning â to be born, â and its form nÄtus give us the roots nat and nai. Words from the Latin nÄscÄ« have something to do with being born. When someone is nat ive to a particular place, she or he was born there. A nat ion, or country, is a place where people are born.he Latin word nÄscÄ«, meaning â to be born, â and its form nÄtus give us the roots nat and nai. Words from the Latin nÄscÄ« have something to do with being born. When someone is nat ive to a particular place, she or he was born there. A nat ion, or country, is a place where people are born.
Mayan Civilization â¢ AD 300-AD 900 â¢ Built great cities-Copan, Tikal-they were religious centers â¢ Farming-maize=corn along with beans, squash â¢ Studied planets and stars-designed calendar â¢ developed number system and writing system called hieroglyphics-left cities around 900 AD
But by far their most sophisticated use of mathematics was in astronomy. Much of knowledge of Aztec astronomy has been lost, but the there's a good synthesis of the surviving information in the book Skywatchers by Anthony Aveni. Following the Maya, the Aztecs had good calculations of the movements of many of the classical planets. For example, they calculated the cycle of Venus at 584 days (the time it takes Venus to overtake earth in its orbit.)