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The sophisticated writing systems of the Mayans and Aztecs

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The Aztec system of writing was pictographic. Events, people and ideas were recorded through a series of drawings done on paper made from the agave plant or painted on the skins of animals.

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The most complex writing system in ancient Mesoamerica was developed by the Maya, and combined pictorial glyphs, similar to the ancient Egyptians, and phonetic elements. 

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Maya myths or histories were recorded on stone tablets and fig-bark paper, made into books called codices. 

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