1) Compare and Contrast the conquest of the Inca and Aztec Empire. The Spanish due to their inferior weapons‚ the bold war tactics of the Spanish and the eventual capture of both empires’ emperors defeated the Incas and Aztecs. However‚ in both societies the single greatest factor that led to their ultimate demise was the smallpox epidemic. This epidemic swept through Latin America and took a hold of both of these empires and affected them with catastrophic results. At roughly the same
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600-1550 CE in the Americas are the Aztec Empire in Mesoamerica‚ and the Inca Empire in the Andes. “The Inca Empire and its contemporary Aztec Empire grew out of political‚ economic‚ and cultural pattern that began to form around 600 CE” (Von Sivers et al. 433). The Inca and Aztec Empires are an important and valuable piece of history that represent the innovations and rapid growth from the past cultures. There are several comparisons and contrasts with the Inca and the Aztec Empires that include: societies
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The Inca were South American Indian people who ruled one of the largest and richest empires in the America’s. The Inca Empire began to expand about 1438 and occupied a vast region that centered on the capital‚ Cusco‚ in southern Peru. The Empire extended more than 2‚500 miles (4‚020 kilometers) along the western coast of South America. It included parts of Present - Day Colombia‚ Ecuador‚ Peru‚ Bolivia‚ Chile‚ and Argentina. The Inca Empire was conquered by Spanish Forces soon after their arrival
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The Spanish conquistadors made contact with the Inca Empire in 1526‚ at the northwestern Inca stronghold of Tumbes. The Spanish‚ in search of wealth and fame‚ were attracted to the awesome riches and supreme power of the Incas. Throughout the next few years‚ a violent and bloody effort to seize power over the Inca people ensued. The prolonged effort of conquest brought many soldiers and missionaries to the South America region. One of the soldiers who made the long journey
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The Incas religion the Inca civilisation was a colony of millions and stayed that way because of their religion and the name inca came from a king he was descended from inti the sun god Competing gods + christianinity The most powerful god of the Inca religion was Viracocha he was believed the creator of the universe the Inca are more closely associated with Viracocha’s most god Inti the sun god The Inca leader Pachacuti the patron god of the Incas sacred city Cuzco‚ and erected a magnificent Temple
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Cultural Difference and Identity Formation Fall 2012 / 1400 Ad to Present/WCIV 10200 5 EF October 29‚ 2012 In a Aztec account of the conquest of Mexico it is very clear that Hernan Cortés’s way of Empire building and culture conquest in my opinion was by deceiving Montezuma. He had Montezuma believing he had come in peace although his entrance said otherwise. His style emphasized Military traditions along with the accompanying courage
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Peru is best known as the heart of the Inca empire‚ but it was home to many diverse indigenous cultures long before the Incas arrived. Although there is evidence of human habitation in Peru as long ago as the eighth millennium BC ‚ there is little evidence of organized village life until about 2500 BC. It was at about this time that climatic changes in the coastal regions prompted Peru’s early inhabitants to move toward the more fertile interior river valleys. For the next 1500 years‚ Peruvian civilization
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was taking over most of North Africa‚ the Middle East‚ and the Balkan Peninsula. In America‚ Incas were the rulers of the largest native empire. Near the end of the 14th century the Inca empire began to expand from its initial base in the Cuzco region of the southern Andes‚ mountains of South America. Incas’ expansion ended with the Spanish invasion led by Francisco Pizarro in 1532. The Incas were the greatest indigenous civilization of the Americas. Within 100 years they had build a
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E. the inca could travel all over horses or even inventions like the wheel or water bottles or cup they had to make all of that stuff out of stone kinda like how they had to make tools weapons out of sticks rock vines and stone and even obsidian. The most modern day resource was mortar which was used to make houses schools and temples for priests.The people that built the temples would decorate the temples with gold and silver jewelry for the holy gods like the inti. For food the incas would
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and weaknesses of the Aztecs according to the author? Many causes contributed to the fall of the once mighty Aztec empire at the hands of the Spaniards in 1521. While one of the most commonly recognized causes is the superior weaponry of the Spaniards‚ the reality is that many other situations and Aztec weaknesses ultimately set the stage for a Spanish victory. First of all‚ the Spaniards inadvertently introduced a variety of new diseases previously unknown to the Aztecs. The Spaniards had already
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