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How an Agriculture-Based Economy Shaped Ancient Mayan Culture

This essay on the Mayan civilization describes advances in architecture and construction, calendars and time, and mathematics (including the concept of zero). The student also describes the culture's religion, including the Mayan pantheon and ceremonies, and notes that many practices and innovations were motivated by the demands of agriculture and farming.
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"Your body paragraphs are in a good place, with clear sourcing, good use of relevant detail, and sound structures. I spot occasional typos and other minor errors, but overall the writing has a good sense of style, control of the mechanics, and movement.

Reading the opening paragraph, I notice that the quotation is not integrated into the text; I notice you otherwise incorporating quotations smoothly, but this lapse at the top has a wider impact than elsewhere, making it hard to determine what the thesis of the paper is. If the quotation informs the thesis, you should build this up so that you, as the author, still assert control of the discussion as something beyond retreading another paper's argument. Ultimately, if your thesis is embodied by the quotation, this shifts the purpose of the paper from thesis-driven essay to a literature review (for example). Focus your attention on clarifying the paper's purpose, thesis, and overall project in that first paragraph so that the reader goes into the rest of the discussion with the proper interpretive tools."

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