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The Incas had a special taxation system, called the Mita, where citizens paid taxes through labor. Goods amassed from Mita would be allotted by the government officials.

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In the Mayan civilization, the king held the highest position. Moreover, priests, merchants, and warriors were part of the upper class. Farmers and people involved in agriculture, the vast majority, were part of the lower class, and lower class Mayans had to pay upperclassmen with materialistic goods such as salt or cloth.

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Inca: the Inca Empire was the biggest out of all Empires. It started off as a small tribe lead by Pachacuti. He then expanded his tribes territory. The Emperor was called the Sapa Inca and was believed to be related to the Sun God, Inti. They had the Inti Raymi which was a celebration of the June Solstice. They even made the Coricancha which is a temple for the Sung God Inti. they sacrificed in the June Solstice and prayed with his mummified ancestors. The Incas were polytheists as well and worshipped a lot of Gods. Cocoa, Gold and Silver were main components of their economy. They had something called the Mita which is a labor tax. Bridges also played an important role in their economy. They also stored their food away for future uses. Machu Picchu is one of the most visited places, it is one of the accomplishments of engineering. They used terraces for planting crops because they were in the mountains and they developed the quipus which is a communication system with knots to indicate information. They were good masonries that their stones were built together with so precise measurements. Their empire fell because of disease, a civil war and because of the conquistadors.

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Incas: The Incas did not enforce slavery in their civilization.

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For the Aztec empire, I learned that the Aztecs often participated in human sacrifices, where they slashed open the hearts of humans, basically feeding the gods with the heart and blood of people, in order to appease them, and to portray their gratitude.

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Aztecs: The Aztecs founded Tenochtitlan in 1325 AD and were defeated by the Spanish Conquistadors led by Hernan Cortes

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The Aztec empire's capital city was Tenochtitlan and this capital city was an island.

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Maya: They had a lot pyramids which were called el castillo. They Maya Empire was located in Mesoamerica. They practiced polytheism which is the warship of several gods. At the very top was the Emperor, the Priests, the nobles, then the warriors, merchants, artisans, peasants, and slaves. There were 40 cities. It remains a mysterious of how the Maya Empire fell but some of the predicted elements were war, lack of food, or even climate change. They had two calendars. One had 365 days.

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The Maya empire was one of the world's longest lasting civilization in the world.

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The Aztecs worshipped many gods that represented different parts of nature and human activities.

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Maya: The Mayans believed in numerous gods (it is said that they believed in a total of 160 gods). In their religion, they gave blood and human sacrifice to the gods and hosted ceremonies on the tops of temples.

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The Mayans were intelligent since they used the number zero very early compared to other empires. Also, they were highly developed at art.

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Cuzco is the capital city of Peru. Here, I have pinned where Cuzco is.

JOHN KIM

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Inca: The Incans used a procedure called "Quipu" to keep written records (knotted cords).

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Inca capital
-had a labor tax system called mita

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Maya Civilization: built pyramids to sacrifice people

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The Aztecs had similar social structure as the Maya

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Even though conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro was greatly outnumbered, the civil war between Atahualpa and Huascar already weakened the empire, and allowed Spaniards to take over.

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There are many theories for the decline of the Mayan civilization. One theory is that in 900 CE, people moved out the regions and stopped building structures.

JOHN KIM

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The Maya had base 20 number systems

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The Inca empire's capital was Cuzco. And the Incas were native Americans that ruled one of the largest empire in the Americas.

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Mayans built one of the most accurate calendars, and established one of the first and most effective observatories in the history.

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Aztec Civilization: Farmed on Chinampas, which were small landmasses of debris surrounded by water.

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Tultitlán Municipality, State of Mexico, Mexico

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Aztec capital
-practiced human sacrifice in the process of worship of religion

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The Inca empire were very skilled at building items that they had a whole civilization on a high mountain (Machu Picchu).

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The Aztecs sacrificed humans in return for gods sacrificing themselves to create the universe.

JOHN KIM

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The Inca Empire- Taxes were paid through labor

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The Inca did not have merchants and human sacrifices

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Aztecs: Created chinampas, "floating gardens" that were made to use the land of Tenochtitlan effectively.

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Incan Civilization: Their government was named Tawantinsuyu.

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Maya capital
-built one of the most accurate calendars

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The Aztec Empire- Capital City- Tenochtitlan

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Aztec: Two of the Aztecs main cities were Texcoco and Tlayacapan. There was the Emperor at the very top, followed by government officials, tax collectors, then warriors and priests who were keepers of the calendars. Huey Tlatoani was one of the Emperors at that time, nature and human activity was believed to be controlled by Gods and they sacrifced people by ripping out their heart. Their main economy was agrculture and chinampas which were floating islands of land.

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The Aztec empire was polytheistic, and worshipped their gods through frequent human sacrifices.

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The Maya Empire- The Maya Empire was one of the longest lasting civilization and lasted for about 3300 years