Do you think the Maya, Aztec, and the Inca believed in gods? Keep reading to find out. I have been researching about the Maya, Aztec, and the Inca. In this essay, I will be comparing the Maya, Aztec and the Inca, and how they had similarities and differences with technology, social systems, and their economy. So let's get started and dive into some similarities and differences.
The Maya, Aztec, and the Inca are similar somehow, let's discuss. They both had Maize as their main crop. They all had many crops but they mostly grew maize because they don’t have to eat it right away. They both believed in more than one god or goddess. This is called polytheism which they believe in more than one deity …show more content…
In most groups, they would have one capital but not the Maya. So the Maya had their own capitals, so each city was its own capital and they had their own government. What the Maya did that was interesting was that they sacrificed people in a weird way. They would throw people into wells and if they survived, they thought they were worthy, so they treated them as sacred. The Mayas at the beginning used to live in wetlands until they made a system. The Maya were clever enough that they made a system to change their wetlands into drylands. Back when the Mayan empire fell, the Maya just abandoned their cities for some reason. Who knows what made the Maya abandon their precious cities, but what we do know is that they started to live in villages after they abandoned their beautiful cities. Those were some differences for the Maya, let's move …show more content…
They trade gold, jade, and copper for vanilla, chocolate, and rubber. Building Chinampas. It’s an odd set of trading, but that's what the Aztecs did on a daily basis. The Aztec ran by a monarchy meaning their king was the highest person. So kind of like the other groups but instead of the Inca meaning you have one god being the best of all the land, you would have in the social status, that kings would rank the highest. When the Aztec would make weapons they would mainly rely on obsidian. They would rely on obsidian to make weapons because Obsidian was so strong in battle because they didn’t want their weapons to break mid-war. Between 1517 and 1519 there was an earthquake in Tenochtitlan. Lake Texcoco flooded there capital city. So back then there was reportedly an earthquake that forced the Aztecs out of their homes, and people don’t really know what they did after they flooded their cities, the world may never know These were the last set of differences, for the Aztec this