Aztec And Inca Similarities

Have you ever study about Aztec and Inca empire? There are some similarities and differences in both empires. There were three civilizations on America such as Mayan, Aztec and Inca. Today, I’m going to compare both Aztec empire and Inca empire. We can find similarities and differences in religion and compositions of empire such as culture, economy and government. Also, both civilization didn’t have any irons or steels. They composed their cities or all of things what they used with rocks, woods. Metal resources like irons and coppers are key factors of human development. Developing civilization without metal resources have limit and cause invasion of external forces with powerful army with advanced technology like Spain army invaded the …show more content…
They had built large temples for ceremony of the sacrifices and they also established special temples to worship their god. The kings or emperors of the Aztecs and Incas were seen descendants of gods or gods and widely respected from their people. In addition, people from both empires practiced and participated in human sacrifices for faith in their gods. However, sacrifices were done by thousands in the Aztec empire. Inca’s human sacrifice was more like when disaster coming or something unexpected had happened would ceremonial sacrifices take place high in the Andes mountain. Inca couldn’t compare to the share quantity of sacrifices carried out by the Aztec. In my opinion, a major point of differences between human sacrifices of Aztec and Inca is in purpose. Sacrificing of Inca had more religious propensity than Aztec did. Aztec human sacrifice was closer to conception of cultural tradition. Moreover, both civilizations were very advanced and had their own complex but well-organized …show more content…
In Aztec empire, there were Tenochititlan, Texcoco and Telcopan that formed the alliance and composed Aztec empire. However, later, Tenochititlan broke the alliance of city states and ruled Aztec empire with absolute monarchy. Since absolute monarchy of Aztec, Montezuma reinforced troops and expanded empire for getting more tribute from conquered people. This getting tribute system was gradually extended to faraway places. In addition, it was the driving force for the empire to flourish, but it also led to the destruction of the empire. In fact, Aztec empire couldn’t manage people who conquered by Aztec well enough, many of them fought for Cortez of Spain against the Aztecs which helped lead to demise of Aztec. In the Inca, government was very strict and had tight control. Inca empire divided four parts of their land for well managing. Each manager was governed by blood relationship. Also, they were strict and had harsh punishment for people who were lazy. Unlike Aztec, the empire with complicated structure and organized rules of Inca controlled well on their people. So, Pizzaro of Spain was much hard to defeat and conquer Incan empire. Also, it took a lot of