Aztec, Maya, Inca Comparison Chart
Aztecs Maya Inca
Aztec, Maya, Inca Comparison Chart
| |Aztec |Maya |Inca |
|Location |Central America, Mexico |Central America |South America, along the Andes |
|Time Periods |1200 to 1521 |400BC-1517AD |1200-1572AD |
| | |Height: 200-900AD | |
|Capital |Tenochtitlan |Tikal, Chichen Itza, Copan, Palenque, Mayapan |Cuzco |
| |Farming (corn, beans, tomatoes, squash) - chinampas |Farming (corn, beans, squash) |Farming (corn, cotton, potatoes) - Terraces |
|Economy | |Trade | |
| |Many gods, sun god most important, human sacrifice |Many gods, king’s blood is sacred, sacrificed animals and |Many gods, some human sacrifice |
|Religion | |some humans | |
| |Different classes of people, warriors have high social |Different classes of people |Different classes of people |
|Social System |status | | |
| |Very powerful king, highly centralized, war was for |Well organized city states each with a king, war was for |King at the center of empire, |
|Government |captives and tribute |tribute |War is for conquest |
| |Built monumental architecture, chinampas, calendar |Writing, math, monumental architecture, calendar |Terraces, irrigation, medicine, monumental |
|Technology | | |architecture, roads |
| |Cortes and the Spanish kill the king, the empire ended |Abandoned cities, disappeared |Civil war and Spanish invasion |
|End of Civilization | | | |
| |Corn, calendar, architecture |Calendar, corn, writing, math, architecture |Medicine, irrigation, terraces |
|Contributions | | | |
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