Inca And Aztec Similarities

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While historians continue to study the similarities and differences, the two main civilizations that show the most major fluxuating differences and similarites are the Incas and the Aztecs. While the pressence of gods and agricultural societies of the Aztecs and Inca were similar between 1300 to 1500 C.E., there were differences ine the type of goverment rule and trade between civilizations, due mostly to isolation brought upon by the Andes Mountians. In both ancient societies there is an obvious sense that gods have the primary rule; in the case of the Aztec and Inca this trait is unchanging. It can be observed that both the Incas and the Aztecs relied heavily on religon for everyday life by the eloborate temples that each society erected in favor of the gods. Is it easy to infer that the religous dependency probably developed due to the fear of the unknown; this characteristic is definable in each society in each era. Along with the obivous religous similarities comes the other obvious economic similarity. …show more content…

In early society the resource that sparked a development in the society is a surplus of goods like food; so, naturally societies including Incas and Aztecs used the demand for food as a economical oppourtunitty and often tradded using agriculture. The reason that the two societies tradded agriculture so vigorously is due to the fact that the societies both had primary knowledge of how to raise crops in a high altitudes. While there are many different similarities between the Aztec and the Inca there are also many notable differences that each socirty