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Cusco, was the capital of the Inca Empire, and is now a city of Peru. At its peak, the Inca Empire was the largest empire in the Americas. Unlike the other empires the Incas did not have merchants.

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I learned that the Inca Empire Flourished from the Andes mountains and grew 800,000 square kilometers from Colombia to Chile.

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The Incan Empire was defeated by Pizzaro.

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The Mayan Empire was famous for their pyramids.

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They were good architects and they were able to make buildings and pyramids.

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The Mayan exchanged and traded goods and products for other goods.

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The king had religious and political supremacy.

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The Mayan had astronomy observatories which were used to observe stars. They used this to tell time.

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The Maya had a decentralized government.

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they used human sacrifices to please the gods

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They developed the most accurate calendar in history

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The empire had a central government.

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The Mayan Empire
Collapsed because its citizens left for the countryside after being oppressed by the government.

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The Incas had lots of ceremonies that included sacrifices, however, there was never human sacrifices. The Incas also had no slaves since they didn't believe in slavery.

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Central, Norte, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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The Aztecs had regular human sacrifices unlike the other empires.

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they used chinampas in agriculture

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Inca Empire
Had no marketing system

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The Inca Empire was the largest empire in America before the Europeans came

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I learned that the Mayan Civilization made two types of calendars where there was one that lasted 365 days and one that lasted 260 days.

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Had special methods of farming

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they believed that the rulers didn't die and were connected to the sun god

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In 1520, Tenochtitlan was ranked of the largest cities in the world

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In the Aztec Empire, the Aztecs sacrificed humans for Gods.

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The Aztecs had human sacrifices and were known for their Aztec writing.

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The Maya Civilization
Collapsed because citizens left for the countryside.

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Sacrificed as many as 10,000 slaves and prisoners of war to the gods each year

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they did not sacrifice humans like other civilizations

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The Aztec Empire
Had human sacrificial ceremonies

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The Maya had a decentralized government.

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The empire had a very complex social structure.

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The Aztecs believed in gods like Huitzilopochtli the god of the sun and Quetzalcoatl, the god of the sky.

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The maya had a social class that consisted of kings in the upper class and unlike the Incas, there were slaves in the lowest class.

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Had no slaves, and the lower class had to pay mita(taxes)

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The Aztec Empire
Had human sacrificial ceremonies

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Central, Norte, Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

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Something interesting about the Aztecs were that they had regular human sacrifices unlike the other empires and had as many as 10,000 human sacrifices

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Maya Civilization: Mayan City Tikal
- One of the most powerful cities in the Maya Civilization

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Was decentralized, unlike other empires, and had many city states, with all of them having their own king.