Ivilizations of the Americas: Mayan, Aztec, and Incan Civilizations

A very long time ago, there were many ancient civilizations, three of them were called the Olmecs, Aztecs and Mayans. These were ancient civilizations that, throughout history, had many accomplishments. Focusing in on some of these achievements, a lot of the advancements made by these civilizations were in religion, economy, and technology.

The Indian tribes of America created cultures that still exist in America today. The Mayas and Aztecs of Central America established empires that supported agriculture and long-distance trade. The Mayas created a calendar in silver, copper, gold and pearls. Then Mayas then founded the city of Tenochtitlan and built roads that encompassed about 5 million people. The natives of North America were nomadic, the Adena-Hopwell, Mississippian and Anasazi cultures emerged. There were approximately 240 different tribes speaking in different languages and they were primarily fishers and hunters. The Anasazi established trading centers that were sustained by comprehensive agriculture. The Chibchas and Incas created an empire similar to the Aztecs but on a smaller scale in the south. The Incas created a huge empire with as many as 12 million people and had a vast realm that stretched over 2,500 miles along the Andes Mountains. They had fertile farms, interconnected network of roads, and enduring buildings.

In history we the people have found to realize that the Maya, Aztec, and Inca culture was one of the most incredible findings of their accomplishments. The Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations were really smart in topics of engineering, writing, agriculture and astronomy. Also all three had their beliefs, and good with agriculture. All three cultures used great technologies in their agriculture like slash and burn, terrace farming. They all hunted for religion, they had a huge belief with the people spread throughout each region. They all had a lot of interest in the use of chocolate in the region, and cultivation. They all were pretty much the same just different beliefs.

The Aztecs had one of the most successful and advanced empires of all time. They had a dwelling culture The Aztec civilization was located directly in the middle of two mountain ranges in the central valley of Mexico ( Platt 10). Although the Aztec empire eventually came to an end they were able to do well as an empire. Contributing factors that led to the rise of the empire was their political structure, social components, and religious traditions which they preformed earnestly.

So, as stated before in this essay, the Incas and Mayans had quite a few things in common but they were much more different than similar. Although both civilizations failed, at one point they flourished greatly. They were intelligent and paved the way for things liken mathematics, architecture,

The economic systems of early American societies were very similar. One of these societies, the Mayans, lived in southern Mexico and northern Central America from the 3rd to the 10th century CE, and they relied on the trade of goods such as obsidian and crops such as cacao beans. Another American civilization was the Aztec civilization. They were located in the Valley of Mexico around the 13th to 16th century CE, and they used slash-and-burn farming to plant crops to trade. The Inca Empire existed from the 13th to the 16th century CE along the Pacific coast of South America near the Andes Mountains. The Inca used terrace farming and irrigation to grow crops such as corn. The economies of these early American civilizations were heavily

The Aztecs, Mayans, and Incas were civilizations that settled in Central and South America thousands of years ago. There are vastly similar to each other, but also very different. They each had their own ways of growing their civilizations into what they needed to be successful. They had their own cultures and ways of life, but the ideas of each of them similarly came together in one way or another.

The Mayan Civilization was a very involute Archaic Native American civilization that grew to be one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas. The civilization development CA 1500 B.C -250 A.D. The people kenned as the Maya lived in the region that is now eastern and southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and western Honduras. Mayans built massive stone pyramids, temples, and sculptures and accomplished involute achievements in mathematics and astronomy, which were recorded in hieroglyphs. After researching the Mayan civilization, the paramount aspects of the Mayan worldview are: everything is sacred, corn is the substructure of life and the very religious group who were very devoted to their religion.

They both used common methods to farm such as terracing and using canals as water supply for their farms. “The Inca were farmers, growing potatoes as well as other crops, often in terraces cut into the high mountainsides, “ (Patel 21-22). In the article The Inca, Patel states that the Inca also used terracing to make up for the scarce amounts of arable land in their mountainous region. “They farmed specials plots of land called Chinampas…- raised areas of land, built in the lake, separated by canals, where they grew maize and other crops,“ (Maldonado 16-19). In the passage Aztecs, it is stated that they used canals and raised land, a technique we use today, to form in the middle of lakes. The Aztecs and Incas have both affected our way of agriculture by providing us with our everyday methods and

After reading about Maya,Aztec,and Inca civilizations;I found that they were important to our past and present life.And in some ways have developed our culture and how we view things. From creating accurate calendars to making complex heiroglyphic.

The Incans were sophisticated farmers. They used very advanced and specialised techniques to grow a huge variety of crops. The Incans created terraces to grow their crops on. They built terraces on the hillsides for two reasons. First to make hillsides flat and second to suit the different altitude requirements of different plants. By building the terraces on the sides of mountains the Incans also enabled their crops to get more sunlight instead of planting in the shaded valleys. The terraces were formed with stone walls and included steps to move from one level to the next. The stone walls prevented erosion. The stone walls were also used as they would heat up during the day and slowly release heat into the soil when temperatures cooled

A population of people under one division who socialize and work with one another. Economies of the societies were mostly based on agriculture. Each tribal society had different rules, laws, and religions but all communities of people in one place were considered a tribal society before Columbus came and many things changed. Examples of tribal societies would have been the Mayans, Aztecs, and Incas. These were important because it offered the natives a community to call their own and without these tribal societies people would have just died off because they could not support themselves.

These three civilizations are very important to history. There names are the Mayan,Aztecs,and the Inca. They all are very different but also very similar in a way, So what is the history behind these civilizations.

The reason that farming crops was the greatest achievement is because the Mayan had so much room in the civilization

One of the main adaptive farming practices used by the Inca was terrace farming. Through this practice, the Inca people built steps along the sides of mountains, essentially creating flat land where there originally was none. Instead of flowing down the slope of the hill, water would pool on the flat surfaces of the steps, providing the crops with more moisture. Through the use of terrace farming, the Inca people were able to grow such crops as potatoes, peanuts, cotton, quinoa and tomatoes.