The Incas and the Aztecs both fell at the hands of Spanish conquistadors. The Aztecs had a weakness in its empire which was that the Aztec emperor welcomed strangers which was a huge part of their fall. Also the emperor of the Aztecs Moctezuma gave them gifts. The Spaniards left and the came back, and had better weapons then the Aztecs had. They also brought deadly diseases.
The Inca Empire, flourishing from 1438 to 1533 was the largest and the most advanced empire in South America and the largest in the world during that time. The empire conquered land all the way from southern Columbia to central Chile during its powerful zoetic. The Inca Empire was highly advanced during the post classical period because of the many discoveries and developments in agriculture, mathematics, science, architecture, and how they used ancestral worship as a way to gain land.
Throughout the Americas there were many significant civilizations before the arrival of westerners. Two of the greatest civilizations that I believe were the most interesting because they both were going on at about the same time were the Aztec and the Inca empires. These were both central and south American civilizations that at their height stretched all across central and South America with populations in the millions. Since both these civilizations grew and expanded about the same time and in similar areas there are many similarities and differences between the two. The Aztecs and Incas were different because of the Locations effecting agriculture, their forms of communication and documenting, and there political systems.
While historians continue to study the similarities and differences, the two main civilizations that show the most major fluxuating differences and similarites are the Incas and the Aztecs. While the pressence of gods and agricultural societies of the Aztecs and Inca were similar between 1300 to 1500 C.E., there were differences ine the type of goverment rule and trade between civilizations, due mostly to isolation brought upon by the Andes Mountians. In both ancient societies there is an obvious sense that gods have the primary rule; in the case of the Aztec and Inca this trait is unchanging. It can be observed that both the Incas and the Aztecs relied heavily on religon for everyday life by the eloborate temples that each society erected in favor of the gods.
By 1325 they began to settle. The Incas, on the other hand, were a small tribe in the Andes in struggle for the rare, rich soil in order to establish farming. When they settled in Cuzco, around 1200, they began to become a powerful
In Mesoamerica, many civilizations appeared up to the 1500’s. Two of these civilizations included the Aztecs and the Incas. Although these two cultures were close geographically, they were not completely similar. The Aztecs and Incas had different religion, politics, and culture.
The word pre-Columbian is used to discuss the history of the Americas in the era before European impact. Pre-Columbian was frequently used in discussing the abundant civilizations of the Americas. During pre-Columbian America, there was nothing, but wilderness and Indians. There were about thirty thousand square miles of desert. The Indians set fires to the trees to kill the area.
The Inca empire was able to conquer the known world in their time. The reason why was when they would conquer someone or someplace they let the people keep their way of life before they came, and only asked for a tribute or tax and teach the language of the empire. The Inca empire also created a way to control the climate. where their crops grew.
Compare and contrast the conquests of Mexico (Aztecs) with that of the Inca. What led up to the conquest? The goals of the Conquistadores. The results. Inca Empire Political: Most powerful figure in the Inca Empire was the Sapa Inca. For one to ascend to the lever of Inca, one must be descended from the original Inca tribe.
What word comes to mind when you think of a civilization such as the Inca? Would you think of them as savages? Unintelligent creatures that aimlessly roamed the Earth? If that is the case, then you could not be more wrong. The Inca were one of the most advanced civilizations of South America in the 13th century.
Though they had many difficulties farming in the Inca Empire, like how they had “arable land with little water and a lot of water where there was little arable land. ” To combat this, they used terrace farming. The ground is made into steps to allow water to flow from the top areas to the bottom and irrigate the soil. The large area of millions of hectares made the terrace farming able to support at least six million people. This is a photo of terrace farming, which is how the Incas farmed.
Inca people were located in modern day Peru, the capital of Cusco. The place that they were located is nicknamed the “lost city”. The place was called the lost city because the city was never found by the Spanish invaders when they conquered the Inca in the 1500’s. By the early 1500’s the Inca people were located 200 miles north to
Europeans had many effects on the area now known as Texas and on the Indians. Few if any of those effects were positive. The Conquistadors affected the people, the land, and caused the colonization of Texas. They had many motives for their deeds, converting the Indians to Christianity, finding cities of gold, or just claiming land. A Spanish conquistador named Cabeza de Vaca crashed into the mainland near Galveston in 1528 and began exploring the area now known as Texas.
the 16th century two massive empires ruled over Latin America. The Inca and the Aztec once ruled the area where both empires have many advantages on physical features which lead to the development of the empires. For the better advantage the Inca Empire would excel at the development of their empire better than the Aztec Empire. Living on the Andes Mountains the Inca Empire created Adobe or Stone brick homes from their ingenuity to over come the rainy like weather. With their ingenuity and craftsmanship this civilization created elevated aqueducts that prevents floods hitting their home in which it did work as some still stand.
Compare and contrast (Tribes) Introduction Inca, Aztecs and Mayan have similar lives then you would expect but just because there life is similar doesn 't mean there live aint different and in this paper you are gonna be learning how the inca, aztecs and mayan are similar. In this project there will be many points on how the Inca, Aztecs, and Mayans are different and similar like they both did sacrifices just not has often and different or how the aztecs and mayans live in CA and the Inca live in peru or how all of the tribes build pyramids. Similarities between Inca, Maya and aztecs So first lets take about how the Inca, Aztecs, and Mayan are similar.
