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Started on the Yucatan peninsula with bad soil and no rivers

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Grew lots of corn, beans, squash, peppers, cassava and cacao.

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Split into city states, and were very hostile, sacrificing people from rival city states.

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Believed that the world had already ended 4 times, and that this is the 5th world.

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Most advanced writing of all of mesoamerica.

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Started in the valley of Mexico.

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Vanilla and cacao beans,  Grew most of their food. Demanded tribute, including 7,000 pounds of corn (maize). Created floating islands of soil held together by willow trees called chinampas to grow their food.

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Mostly commoners or slaves, and the elite were religious leaders and warriors

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The Mayan calendar had 365.242 days per year, which is only 17 seconds off from the modern calendar.

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Had a system of writing, but not as advanced as the mayans

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The gods had created the world through sacrifices, thus human sacrifice was encouraged.

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Captured and controlled a large area of Mesoamerica

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They started in what is now Peru out in the mountains.

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Used terrace farming and grew resilient crops, such as potatoes, quinoa, and corn.

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Incan society was a monarchy ruled by a single ruler called the Sapa Inca.

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They actually had no proper writing system, they simply tied knots on ropes in a system known as quipu.

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Their religion primarily focused on the god Viracocha, who they believed to have created all life and the earth itself.

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Incas are known for being good engineers,  building over 14,000 miles of paved road to connect all parts of the empire. They were also the creators of terrace farming in the Americas.