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    The Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations all developed advanced societies in Mesoamerica and South America, with the Maya located in Central America, the Inca Empire based in the Andes Mountains, and the Aztecs centered in modern-day Mexico. Each civilization had complex governments ruled by powerful emperors, developed advanced architectures like pyramids and roads, and had their own religious and mathematical systems. However, they all eventually declined due to factors like disease, civil war, and conquest by the Spanish conquistadors in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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    The Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations all developed advanced societies in Mesoamerica and South America, with the Maya located in Central America, the Inca Empire based in the Andes Mountains, and the Aztecs centered in modern-day Mexico. Each civilization had complex governments ruled by powerful emperors, developed advanced architectures like pyramids and roads, and had their own religious and mathematical systems. However, they all eventually declined due to factors like disease, civil war, and conquest by the Spanish conquistadors in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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    CHARACTERISTICS MAYA INCA AZTEC

    Geography & Cities They were located in the They were located in the Andes They were located in Central
    Yucatan Peninsula, Medical Mountains of South America, that Mexican Basin
    (Areas), Guatemala, Belize, now is Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and
    Located where?
    Hondurasand San salvador parts of Argentina. The capital was: Tenochtitlan

    What was the


    And the capital of the Mayans And the capital was:Cuzco and
    capital city?
    was: Tikal and Chichen Itza Machupichu

    Fiscal distribution
    Each city had a central plaza,
    of the city
    surrounded by temples,
    pyramids and the palace.

    Government There was not enpire They were warrior people,


    (independent states and they They were ruled by and emperor
    What type of were not politically ruled). who was considered to be the Ruled by emperors who have
    government did They were governed by son of the Sun, he ruled with absolute power.
    they have? powerful kings. absolute authority (ruled by (the emperor extracted tribute
    Name of an bureaucracy) from the conquested people,
    important ruler. THey had her own coin, army, in the form of gold, solver,
    cloth, cacao beans and furs.)
    k’inich Janaab Pakal (Pakal Atahualpa
    the great) An important ruler was
    Moctezuma
    Polytheistic (more than 160 THe core of Incas religion was They were polytheistic, but
    Religion goods) THey made sacrifices. ancestor worship.(ancestor were most important god, was
    Gods were temperamental and venerated, and the bodies amb Huitxulopochtl, (he need
    had to be appeased through human blood to survive)
    offerings of precious metals, tombs of the dead were treated
    incense, and blood. as sacred objects)

    Technology They understood the concept They used QUIPU system of They invented the Tlachtli:
    What sort of of Zero. knots on a cord to record A vallagem that uses the
    mathematical, important information, but it was rubber ball or heads of
    scientific, or And they start to write not an writing system sacrificed victims.
    architectural (hieroglyphics).
    advances did And also, they created the Road
    they make? The built pyramids upon which system They don’t have written
    mayan priests would perform Language.
    rituals. They created the calendar, and
    aqueducts. They build massie temples
    They did a new calendar and pyramids dedicated to
    And the terrace farming their gods.
    A new maths system,
    aqueducts and medicines to
    cure infections

    They created islands with a


    lot of water to land the
    cultives.
    Disappeared late in the 8th There was a civil war. The Aztecs like the Inca fell
    Decline century. A plague of smallpox to the Spanish Conquistadors
    What happened And finally the Inca Empire came (Herdando Cortes)
    during their decline? Cities were abandoned. to and end in 1532, when
    What were possible conquered by Spanish
    causes of the Perhaps their decline was in conquistadors: Pizarro
    decline? part due to more and more
    victims for sacrifice.

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