The Incas were descended from a people who had settled in the valley of Cuzco. Their civilization was created by Manco Capac in the early twelfth century, but the Incas did not expand until the late 12th century. In 1438, Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui took the throne, calling himself Earthshaker, he marched through the Andes conquering large parts of South America and turning them into a single mighty empire. His defeat of the Chancas was a turning point for the Incas. Pachacuti rebuilt Cuzco into a city of enormous stone palaces and temples, and brought his numerous provinces under the direction of a single government.
Pizarro is the head of a few hundred soldiers. Four years after they get in, the whole Empire is theirs. The rapidity of this conquest puzzled a generation of historians: how the Incas, which erected in only one century of civilization history a high rank developed society let themselves overcome as easily by a handful of conquistadors? Answers to this question are multiple and various reasons are here to explain the decline of this civilization. Indeed, the empire reached his apogee during the reign of Huayna Cápac (1493-1525), who died without designating his successor.
Throughout their conquest, this dominating force became known as the Inca Empire. For many years the Inca’s dominated and struck fear into the hearts of enemies. This of course slowly ceased with the Spanish colonization in the early 16th Century. The country was then known as Charcas and was subject to the Viceroy of Lima. After being under Spanish rule, Bolivia soon began to long for independence.
Explain how the Aztec empire was created, and how did the empire contributed to its own destruction. The rise to power of the Aztecs (Mexica) and its own downfall is an important story and was accounted for just after the destruction of the Aztec empire. The formation of the triple alliance: Tenochtitlan (Tenochca), the Acolhua of Texcoco, and the Tepaneca of Tlacopan; together dominated most of Mexico between 1430 and 1521 AD. There are many factors that contributed to the success of the Aztec empire, and also a large number of factors that resulted to their own destruction many years later. The Aztecs were impacted by Toltec before them and also by the Maya, and owed a great deal to the founders of the first Mesoamerican civilisation; the Olmec.
Tsar Alexander III’s reforms were reverse ‘reaction’ of what his father, Alexander II, did before him to improve the country he ruled over. Repressive policies under Nicholas II were continued right up until early 1905 when Bloody Sunday took place outside Winter Palace and hundreds of Russian citizens were massacred by the Cossacks. It appears that there was extremely little, if any, political reform during 1881-1905. Political reform after 1905 began to rise. A clear turning point for politics in Russia was the publishing of the October Manifesto.
Manco Capac, the first emperor of the Incan empire, founded the Incan civilization in the early 13th century. Founded in the 14th century, the Aztec Empire was formed from the alliance of three city-states; the Tepanecs, Acolhuas and Texcoco, in modern-day Central Mexico. Their religion on the other hand, both the Aztecs and Incas revered and had their own god-like personifications of the sun. The Incas were receptive of other belief systems, but also acted as a theocracy since all members of the Incan Empire had to worship the sun god, Inti. The name of the Aztec's sun god, Huitzilopochtli, was also the god of war.
Tanvir Ahmed 10/23/11 Mr. Borthwick Period 7 A Comparison of the Political Structures of Imperial Rome and the Han Dynasty The world in which we inhabit has seen the rise and fall of numerous civilizations ever since mankind first began to organize itself into an advance state of human society marked by a high level of science, culture, industry, and government. The most important aspect of civilization may very well be government, or in other words organized political direction and control. Without a government a civilization could never hope to stay a cohesive and powerful structure, surely chaos would erupt without control and order. This is very true of Imperial Rome (44 BCE–1453 CE) and Han China (206 BCE–220 CE). Both eras were regarded as the Golden Ages of their respective civilizations but the glories the Golden Ages brought could have never been achieved if a system of political structure was not present to ensure advancement went smoothly until the point Imperial Rome and Han China became the political hegemony of the Mediterranean and East Asia respectively.
• • The Incas and Aztecs, empires that both peaked in the 16th century, shared many differences and similarities socially and politically. The Incas were the more powerful empire because the Aztecs were more focused on their religion and had a better social system. • • The Incas were at first a little tribe that was a chiefdom, or form of political organization with rule by a hereditary leader. They used Andean social and economic customs. Incas were pastoralists meaning their military strength and success based on how many llamas and alpacas you had.
HERNANDO CORTES 1485-1547 Hernando Cortes was one of the bravest military leaders of all time. Born in Medellin, Spain, he was a Spanish Conquistador who conquered most of Central America. He also gave Spain three-hundred years of control over Mexico. Cortes started exploring in the early 1500’s. He explored to find riches and conquered by being observant of the natives.
Most empires have lasted more than a 100 years like the Roman empire which lasted for 1500 years however that was not the case for the Inca empire. The Incas started in a small area in Peru and prospered to become one of the most influential agrarian civilizations thriving for only 100 years (Inca Empire - Google Sites). However, the Inca empire was pushed to its fall by external forces such as disease and Spanish conquistadors. Disease weakened the empire and the Spanish conquistadors took advantage of the already crumbling Inca empire and fully destroyed it. The Inca empire's decline started when diseases such as smallpox, measles, chickenpox, and influenza spread throughout the empire killing between 50% and 90% of the population (The