- City- states all over central America

- Pyramid temples and publica plazas were found

- Findings also include ball playing courts, stone monuments, tools and pottery.

- Use of limestone for building and tool making

- Volcanic Soil - allows crops

- Use of symbols to write

- Had strong military laws

- Costumes, language and calendar were original

- Findings include lots of roads, tunnels, bridges and the fortress of Sacsahuaman

- Terracing methods to allow farming

- No writing - their inventories were made of knotted cords called "quipus"

- Good climate for agriculte + abundance of natural resources

- Tenochtitlan was the capital built in Texcoco island.

- They were mainly warriors, temple builders and corn farmers

- Conquered people around them

- Writing system based on glyphs (symbols)

by the Spanish who came to America looking for new land/products to explore.

These Spanish missions worked in a very similar way to the Portuguese mission in Brazil.

Central and South America were found and occupied by these two European countries and had their

people and products explored and taken to Europe (American products were very valuable in Europe)

The Spanish main source of profit was the silver they found mainly in Peru. The biggest silver mines in the world are located in this area, such as San Potosi and Penasquito. Nowadays, Mexico is still responsible for the biggest provision of silver in the world.

Later on, people will manage to become independent from Spain - exactly like Brazil managed to become independent from Portugal. That process was different for each region and several countries were formed after that.