Maya And Aztec Compare And Contrast

The Mayan, Aztec, and Inca empires are considered to be some of the greatest empires ever. They each are responsible for many of the things we see in the world today. Take astronomy for example. The Mayans followed the sun, moon, and venus, and had an eerily accurate clock. The Maya and the Aztec both had innovative farming that fit the area that they were in. However, one empire was greater than the other two. The aztec empire was superior to the Maya and the Aztec for a variety of reasons, including their due to their advances in architecture, social class, and agricultural methods.

Of many, the first reason that the Inca were so superior was their architecture. They lived up in the mountains, creating complex buildings at elevations 15,000 and 22,000 feet, which are hard to reach even by today's standards due to the freezing temperatures and dehydration. Scientists today are still baffled on how they managed to adapt to living up there. Not only were they able to build numerous buildings at …show more content…
Families were grouped together into Ayllus, which were clans that worked together to support each other. This was very smart because they all could live comfortably working together and supporting each other. Their agricultural methods were also very complex and sophisticated. They build stone walls in the mountains to make flat surfaces and used terrace farming to grow maize, potatoes, squash, beans, peppers, and peanuts. Studies also show that they were able to make and consume the first popcorn. Other ways that the Incas were the best empire included their crime rate. They had an extremely low crime rate because everyone had everything that they needed. Therefore people did not have any need to commit crimes. Also, crimes had severe punishments like being thrown off a cliff or having a limb amputated or an eye gouged out. That also really helped with the crime