What Are The Similarities Between The Aztecs And The Incas

The first Americans migrated from Asia during the last ice age crossing Siberia and Alaska around 13.000 and 3000 B.C. Mexico and Peru had many domesticated crops in their land which raised their population and wealth. Maize, or corn was a very popular crop in Central and North America. There were two main empires. The Aztecs and the Incas both in Mesoamerica and the Andes. The Aztecs created trading routes and taxes ruled by priests and warrior nobles while the Incas made roads, storehouses, and administration ruled by nobles. The textbook notes and the article, “A Cultivated World” have many similarities as well as some differences. The Columbian Exchange was the exchange of belonging or goods, ideas, diseases, people, and animals. The notes and the article both talk about the Indians and their environment, resources, and struggles however

The article and textbook are similar because they both explain the spread of diseases and how they affected the life of many people in African continents. The textbook explain malaria, which is fever created from invaded red blood cells and how many people died from smallpox. Smallpox and war killed around 17 million people between 1500-1650. The article states how the diseases were the worst of all because the Indians were unaware of the harm that can be done to them. Millions of Indians died because of these diseases reducing the Indian population by 1800. Indians were affected by these diseases and many of them died causing the land to not be managed and die. This caused the colonizers to think the Indians were lazy by not treating their land properly and take over the land instead. The textbook and article were slightly different because the article talked about labs, diggings, and studies done to discover Indian activities while, the textbook just stated the facts from that time of