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When Spanish conquistadors arrived in Mexico, in 1519, they were amazed to see that "money ( cacao) actually grew on trees." At first, they didn't like the bitter, spicy drink given by the Aztecs. But soon, they realized the importance and power it held to those who had it. Slowly, they came to actually like the taste. They sent cacao back to Spain, however, they enjoy it with sugar and cinnamon.

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The ruins of Mayor Temple of Tenochtitlan

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Tenochtitlan was the capital of the Aztecs. The city was built on an island in Lake Texcoco, in central Mexico. It was founded in A.D 1345. It remained the most important Aztec center until it's destruction at the hands the of the conquering Spanish. Led her Hernan Cortes.

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The Maya covered there builds with glyphs. They had animal glyphs. They wrote books called codices.

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The Incan road network was made to connect the settlements together. The Incan roads covered more than 25,000 miles. They were made using on wooden, stone, and bronze tools. They had things like relay races to get things to one place from another.

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The House of the Governor, Uxmal, Mexico.

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A woman only ruled when a man wasn't of age, or unavailable for whatever reason.

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The Codex contains information for Maya priests about rituals and ceremonies, as well as astronomical information.

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The signs on this codex are called "Glyphs"

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Aztec temples were soaked with blood from human sacrifices.

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400 Spanish conquistadors went in the Aztec capital seeking riches.

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Water and Earth were connected to the heavens to them.

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I find out in the article that the Inca was one of the first civilizations that used somewhat roads. this was interesting because we use roads i our everyday lives and i don't think we think about that every time we drive. if it probably wasn't for Ica, then we most likely wouldn't have roads

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I think The Maya had treasured important people because of ritual or just to honor them.

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Decendents of the Inca have been rebuilding a rope bridge for 500 years.

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During the classical period trade between non-Maya groups were thriving.

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The Ancient Mayan Empire was one of the largest, well grown, longest lasting, economically stable, and smartest ancient civilizations in history.

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When the Incan emperor just had to make another capital city, it resulted in a complex highway eventually being built. That's a big construction project.

Four villages built a bridge they thought had some spiritual connection.

Inca bridges included bridges, causeways, stairways, and stations. It was invaluable to them.

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Maya cities were mostly independent from the central government.

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I love that the Mayan made chocolate because that's my favorite dessert and i think that was a great idea ever though chocolate does melt is it would be hard to keep cocoa from melting because of how hot it was.

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What endures from the ancient civilizations that ruled the Andes?

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The ruler of the empire ordered his people to build 2 highways leading to the same place.

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According to the Archaeologists Institute of America, the Spanish had seen things they have never expected. Temples soaked in blood and human hearts being burned in ceramic pots. They heard that tales of thousands of people being sacrificed, at the Great Temple Dedication.

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The ruins of the ancient Maya city of Tikal located in present-day Guatemala. 

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The Maya was split into 3. Northern lowlands, southern lowlands, and southern highlands.

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For some reason the Maya disappeared. I don't know why. It is a mystery that I really want to know the answer to. People make theories on what happened to it but they are not 100% positive.

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I cant believe they made a entier bridge that strache for 25,000 miles long out of long grass.

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The Maya Empire was centered in what is now called Guatemala. They were excelled in things like agricualture, pottery, writting, calendar making, and mathematics. They grew crops such as corn, beans, and squash. They never knew what actually happened to the maya but they made many therios as to what could have happened.

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The two main highways that ran north to south went through Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina.

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I'm surprised that the Inca kept building the bridge for 500 years just as a link to the ancient past.

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the aztec traded goods with the Maya for cacao because they could not grow it

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The official international site of the Ferrero Group.

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The Incas built an 100 foot bridge. They have been building and rebuilding this bridge of twisted rope for about 500 years.

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There are many rope bridges, spanning rivers, and ravines.

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1. I wonder why the Aztecs tower of skulls had women and children in it.
2. I find it weird that chocolate started out as a drink, not a food.
3. The Eagle-Cactus-Snake thing I find interesting.

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How the Inca Engineered a Road Across Extreme Terrain

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The Quechua communities, descendants of the ancient Inca, have been building and rebuilding this twisted-rope bridge in the same way for more than 500 years.

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A high-angle view of an Inca road crisscrossing a mountain at Machu Picchu in the Cusco region of Peru.

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It helped with the movement of armies, people and goods, and as an important physical symbol of imperial control.

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By paragraph 2-3, i was a little spooked about the sacrifices. For me, i hate when people die just to try to satisfy others and it makes my sad. but this was there culture and i think even if it was abuse to humans, we should still respect Aztec's ways and traditions.

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The Inca Road system that formed a network known as the royal highway or the qhapaq nan, was a vital part of the Inca Empire. It allowed for the movement of people, armies, and goods. This also served as an important physical symbol of imperial control.

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The Inca road network is still standing to this day and used by pedestrians to this day.

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the aztecs made a giant tower of human skulls to scare of there enemies.

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How were Inca bridges sturdy enough to walk on with the bridge tilting?

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Are we ever going to find out why the Maya disappeared?  Article :

The Ancient Maya Empire: It Flourished and Mysteriously Ended

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The Inca road is known to have dazzling artifacts. Most museums don't really focus on the roads.

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Some of the Maya city-states are found in Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras.

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How did they build a highway that runs for 3,700 miles.That is the distance of New York to Peruse.

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 Archaeological site in Moray, Peru, where the ancient Incas lived.

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The center of the Inca Empire was located in southern Peru.

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The Aztecs wanted to drink the beverage caco, but didnt know how. That's when the Mayans helped them grow it so they could have some too. They used the beans for making lots of money. They were the ones who could afford it be

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They heard tales about many people being sacraficed to the gods in the Great Temple. There were so many victims. They stood for miles. They found out that not all the victims were male. Some skulls were thinner so they found out that they could be woman´s skulls or even childrens.

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Where there any lanes in the Inca rodes?

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Tenochtitlan: History of the Aztec capital

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While the founders of the city were traveling, they carried a statue that they took directions from.

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The Inca engineered a way to build and rebuild bridges along the massive Inca Road, a tradition that some Quechua villagers continue today.

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They used glue, and stone to hold together the Inca Empire.

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The Quechua bridge is linked to the Earth and water, both of which are connected to the heavens.

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How translating symbols helped us understand Maya culture - In the past 25 years, archaeologists have learned to read what the Maya wrote. Today we know the names of kings and queens, how they lived, and when they died, transforming our view of Maya culture.

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The center of the Inca Empire, Cusco, was located in the Andean mountains in Southern Peru. Huayna Capac was the ruler of the empire, and would spend a lot of time in the chilly capital city. More than a thousand miles of steep, rugged mountains, separated Quito and Cusco.

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When people (Mexican archaeologists) used to break into the Mayan temples and they had no idea what those hieroglyphics had meant that had been written on the sarcophagus.

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For centuries the Incas have been building and rebuilding a twisted rope bridge or Q'eswachaka.

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To make their chocolate they used a plant called cacao. Cacao drinks where make with valuable beans. Back then, it was a spicy frothy drink. They added vanilla,chilli peppers, and cornmeal to thicken it.

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I thing that i saw was that in the title, they Tower. and by my inference, the picture looks like its a wall... i wonder if it looks like a tower in person so that's why the author or journalist says that its a tower.

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Government and Society of the Ancient Maya - The various Maya city-states are found in what are today the countries of Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras.

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Inca roads covered more than 25,000 miles, principally in two main highways running north to south across the Inca Empire. The empire eventually spread over ancient Peru, Ecuador, Chile, Bolivia and Argentina.

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Chocolate was once a bitter drink. When the spanish explorers got to Mexico in 1519, they disliked the Aztec's bitter, spicy drink. Slowly they began to like it. Soon they sent cacao to Spain so that people there could try it. The spanish found there own way to make chocolate. They made it hot, with mixed in sugar and cinnamon.

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the 136,000 skulls that Andres de Tapia found where used to warn the Aztec enemies

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The Inca road system, which formed a network known as the royal highway or qhapaq ñan, was a vital part of the Inca Empire. It both allowed for the movement of armies, people and goods, and served as an important physical symbol of imperial control. Across plains, deserts and mountains, the network connected settlements and administrative centers.

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Cocoa was originaly added to water and was made for the rich,also cocoa became a currancy with the mayans and aztecs.

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I wouldn't have thought that the aztecs learned how to make chocolate from the maya's all because they didn't know how to grow cocao

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The Inca made a bridge out of bridge out of piles of long grass that was soaked, pounded, and dried out in the sun.

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Tenochtitlan was the capital city and religious center of the Aztec civilization.

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Something i noticed was that we know how many spanish conquistadors came to conquer the Aztec. 400 says the article.

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The Maya civilization was one of the most dominant societies of Mesoamerica, a term used to describe Mexico and Central America before the 16th-century Spanish conquest. Unlike other scattered native populations of Mesoamerica, the Maya were centered in one geographical block covering parts of Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador.

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Tenochtitlan: History of the Aztec capital: Tenochtitlan was the capital city and religious center of the Aztecs. It was built in A.D. 1345 on an island called Lake Texcoco. Lake Texcoco was in Mexico.

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A short, Sweet history of Chocolate: Later the Aztecs leared cacao from the Maya. Cacao beans became really famous. People started selling it.

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The Maya excelled at agriculture, pottery, hieroglyph writing, calendar-making and mathematics. They left behind an astonishing amount of impressive architecture and symbolic artwork. Most of the great stone cities of the Maya were abandoned by A.D. 900, and scholars have debated since the 19th century what might have caused this dramatic decline.

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Archaeologists unearth 500-year-old Aztec tower of skulls in Mexico City: With all the skulles they had they counted it. They found 136,000 skull heads.

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Aztecs learned about cocoa from the Maya. They prepared it with cold water. Mostly only rich Aztecs could afford cocoa beans.

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I wonder why the indigenous Quechua communities ( that are descendants of the Inca) are so inclined to keep up with their history and keep living most of the ways the Inca did. Article :

How the Inca Engineered a Road Across Extreme Terrain

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The Inca road system has survived for centuries - Inca roads were built using only wooden, stone and bronze tools. The width of most roads varies from 3 to 13 feet, although some could be much bigger, such as the 49-foot-wide highway in the Huanuco Pampa province.

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The Aztec's wall of skulls in a temple belonged to fallen enemy warriors. It was a brutal message to enemies. This is what happens to enemies of the Aztecs.

Tenochtitlan was a religious center in the Aztec Civilization founded in 1345 C.E.

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Every June the Inca had a 3 day ceremony. In those 3 days they built a bridge. To build this bridge dozens of men lift the long cables. Villagers set to work and link the cables to each side of the canon. At the end of the third day the bridge is capable of bearing 5,000 pounds of weight.

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The Aztecs had to trade with the Mayan for cacao since they couldn't grow it themselves.

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I'm surprised that they had so many skulls up on the tower of skulls and the gender of the souls because back in the A.D time I didn't think they would have the resources to be able to have so many skulls on that tower and I'm surprised that they would showcase baby and women skulls because I know if I saw those I would probably think that no matter what you are you are not safe when walking in any aztec civilization.

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My question is what did the Maya do when their king/emperor died?

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Aztecs: Researchers believe the tower of skulls was indeed a show of power by the Aztecs. They have had trouble coming up with a more detailed explanation, however, and the full story of the skulls have died with the Aztecs.

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The Inca highway network ran 3,700 miles between Chile and Ecuador, which is about the difference between New york and Paris. The road was called the Qhapaq Ñan, it means "Road of the Lord" in Quechua.

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sometimes women ruled because rulers had to be a decedent of the past ruler.

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Tenochtitlan was the capital city of the aztec empire which was built on lake texcoco.

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Aztecs: They had heard tales of thousands of people being sacrificed at the Great Temple's dedication. There were so many victims, according to stories, that they stood in rows that stretched for miles, all waiting to have their hearts torn out. The conquistadors and the Spaniards who followed them wrote of the victims of human sacrifices rolling down the steps of the temple, where their bodies were broken apart and eaten in a stew with chilies and tomatoes.

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I wonder how the Maya dissapeared, but the only way we would get to know how is time travel, but that doesn't exist, I wish it did though.

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What I noticed was that Incas believed in Mythology but i don't see many mythology drawings that they inca might have created. the population of the capital was about 200,000. that's a lot of people especially for a capital. how many people who lived in the capital where nobles or priests, and how many were people in labor or enslaved?

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My question is, Why was the Aztecs and the Maya first taste of cacao spicy?

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The Inca road runs for more than several thousands miles in South Africa.

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In the Inca civilization, every June, after the rainy season has ended, and in the highlands of southern Peru, residents of four villages near Huinchiri, with more than 12,000 feet in altitude, come together for a three-day festival. Men, women and children have already spent days in busy preparation.

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In the article it said that they fond the skulls of women and kids so I wonder what did those people do to deserve death.

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Chocolate was a drink before it became a chocolate bar and the spanish grew this plant called cacao which was where chocolate came from.

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What endures from the ancient civilizations that ruled the Andes? - The Inca highway network was arguably one of humanity's biggest, most complex construction projects. Running for 3,700 miles between Chile and Ecuador, about the distance from New York to Paris.

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The Maya were really good at calendar making, writing, pottery , and agriculture.

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Inca engineers overcame several geographical challenges when building the 25,000 mile road network.  For example they built roads across deserts, mountain passes, ravines, and rivers.
Article:  The complex Inca road system was built to last

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The Aztecs learned how to make chocolate from the Maya

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The official international site of the Ferrero Group.

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1. I think it's cool that the Mayans were the first to use the number 0.
2. It's surprising that the Mayans were actually fierce warriors.
3. I think it's crazy that 50 Mayan civilizations were able to survive at the same time.

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Scientist did not only find the sculls of men, but they also found skulls of women and children.

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A Tzompantli, or skull wall, in Templo Mayor in Mexico City, Mexico.

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The skulls were of those who the Aztecs defeated in war. They use them for decoration and a warning to anyone thinking about crossing them.

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the maya used symbols to write we had to decipher it.

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I wonder how the Inca did most sacrifices except for the girl in the article

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Tenochtitlan: History of the Aztec capital - Tenochtitlan remained the most important Aztec center until its destruction at the hands of the conquering Spanish, led by Hernán Cortés, in 1521. This led to the final collapse of the Aztec Empire.

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the inca had big long roads so that the armies and people can move around an is also a sign of imperial control.

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in ancient Maya women were alowed to rule if the next king wasn't the right age yet

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The skulls were used to represent what happens to the Aztec enemies. The spanish counted 136,000 skulls on the wall in the temple.