Aztecs

In the history of the Americas many achievements have been made. Most of these achievements had come from the Maya, Inca, and Aztec Empires. Each civilization was greatly advanced in the topics agriculture, writing, and engineering and astronomy.

Astronomy was one of the greatest achievements of the Mayan Empire. The Mayan Empire knew how many days were in a year and showed that they knew fall spring equinox. They demonstrated their knowledge of astronomy on their Pyramid of Kukulkan which they built their city around. The Mayan had 365 steps leading up the pyramid of Kukulkan one for each day of the year. They also demonstrated their knowledge of astronomy through the autumn and spring equinox. Every spring and fall equinox a snake shadow would slither down the pyramid leading to their sacred water source.

The Mayan also developed a calendar according to their knowledge of astronomy. Another great achievement of the Mayan Empire is their system of writing. The Mayan Empire had a system of writing based on nearly 800 signs in which each sign represent a full syllable. This style of writing is called glyphs and is still unknown today. But from these glyphs we are able to assume that they can read and write and therefore have written records.

One of the greatest achievements for the Incan Empire was their agriculture. The Incan Empire used a farming technique called terrace. This is when they cut into the mountain creating what looks like huge steps. These steps are now flat and not pointing downhill so they are able to farm on them. The Inca were also very advanced in their engineering skills. The Incas had a complex system of roads uniting its Empire through the Andes Mountains. The Inca Empire had to build their road through the Andes Mountains so they had to go up and down the hills/mountains which made it much harder.

Another civilization advanced in engineering was the Aztec Empire. They used their engineering techniques to build tall building, roads, canoes, canals, artificial causeways, bridges, temples, and houses. The Aztec Empire was built on and island and on this island they expanded it using some of their engineering techniques. Another topic in which they were advanced was agriculture. They used artificial islands to grow their crops. This was called floating gardens or chinampas. The islands were usually 15 to 30 feet big. With this technique their crops would get plenty of water so they would not have to water them as often.

The Maya, Inca and Aztec were all successful in many different ways. Through their advanced knowledge of engineering, agriculture astronomy and writing they have created many achievements. These civilizations can be considered great for their achievements.

Don't know what you mean by why. They weren't traveling to the Americas for the Aztecs, they came over to further colonize and were looking at the Yucatan peninsula, where the Aztecs lived, as a prime target for colonization.

Reasons for Aztec and incan conquer:

1. The tribes were quite primitive and so was their war material!

2. The spanish brought diseases that the incans and Aztecs had never heard of!

3. The Aztecs and incans believed that their gods would protect them, The spanish smashed the gods!

The Aztecs flourished in a well known area in Mesoamerica

developed complex mathematical and calendar systems

Maya

Mexico and America

She spoke many native languages of Mexico & persuaded many native peoples of Mexico to join Cortés in his fight because they did not want to live under AZTEC rule. What did the Spanish rename Tenochtitlan?

The Mayan civilization used to sacrifice live humans in order to appease their gods. It is said that they would remove the still-beating heart from a person, remove the person's head, and then throw their body into a pit.

The empire expanded because the empire ruled and battled to gain more land and land. Like a stake. Everytime a new emperor was chosen, they had to get more land then they currently had than before. Hope this helped you.

it included a number of independent city-states with competing rulers

Aztecs and Myans both are polytheistic, which means they both believe in many gods. Also, they both have sacrificial ceremonies where they give blood to the gods and kill enemy warriors that they have acquired from won battles.

Hernando Cortes conquered the Aztec Empire in Mexico in 1521AD. This was because of the conquisradors lust for gold and glory. This helped set the way for Spanish colonization of Mexico

The Aztecs were alive from approximately 1325-1521 AD.

~Hope that helped!!!!

Most Aztecs were rarely over 5'6'' meaning that's the average height with the context in what I have read and increased the height by a few inches (because he has better health than most commoners, and possibly well with exercise and sleep), If we look at this painting, we can see Montezuma on the left and Hernan Cortez on the right. We can assume Montezuma is somewhere from 5'7'' and 5'9'

they usealliancesto build their empire by using them to agree to other city-states

As civilization dawned on Americas, people shifted from old ways of hunting and gathering and embraced improved ways of doing agriculture and rearing livestock. They also adopted improved cultural systems and leadership styles in communities.

He built over 70, many of which he modestly named after himself. The most significant is today's Alexandria, but this is not the one he built, which became submerged by a sea rise nearly a couple of millennia ago.

The arrival of people from other lands affected al-andalus because they were misplaced from their original land.

Well, the Greeks went way before the civilization we call the Aztecs. If we wish to compare a western civilization with an eastern one like the greeks, we should look toward the Mayans or Olmecs.

Yeah, I'm looking for the same answer on my history test....lol

Although the main contribution of the Inca was their architecture, they also contributed to many other things. They built many extensive road ways, bridges, and aqueducts that they constructed by themselves. They were also unique in their ways of governing conquered tribes, and they created extensive farming areas using terraces. They had fit large stones together to building their cities; There was no mortar needed and the structure could withstand earthquakes.

The Spanish invasion was not a meeting of equals, where each side could try to convert the other. The Spanish generally had overwhelming military power. More importantly, they had magic that must have come from the gods (especially guns), and even looked like the gods. When the Spanish told the Aztecs to believe in Jesus, there was no debate and rarely any resistance - the Aztec people accepted the teachings of the Spanish.

Your question makes no sense. What period in history are you asking about?

You used the tags "US History," "Incas," and "Aztecs," but Spanish conquerors defeated the Incas and Aztecs more than 250 years before the United States was founded.

You should also explain what you mean by "holdings."

in previous years, the Aztecs had plundered them and used their young a human sacrifices. Wouldn't you?