Although the Incas were more advanced and modern in their ways, the Inca and Aztec Empires were similar in some of the aspects that allowed them to be so successful and powerful. First, both civilizations had intensive agriculture mandated by the state. The crops were then redistributed to all the social classes equally. Both economies depended greatly on agriculture and farming, even producing some of the same crops such as corn and squash. Although agriculture based societies have been around for a long time in history and were pretty much the norm in this time period, their agriculture systems still created a surplus of crops, which allowed for increased populations.
Each city had its own ruler and the ruler had many nobles to help him rule. The citizens of the cities had to pay taxes to the nobles; this is how the government was supported. Most men in this empire were farmers and farmers could pay their taxes in food to support the cities. Farmers in the Mayan empire accomplished farming with two different techniques. One was called ‘slash and burn agriculture.’ This technique involved going to an area covered in trees.
The Aztec and Mayan Civilizations in the Americas Ashley M. Carpenter Western Civilization II National University June 2, 2012 Abstract From 250 A.D. to the late 1500’s A.D. the Mayans and the Aztecs controlled Central and South America. Each was unique, but still shared a few of the same traits. Both had their own calendar system, counting system, and Polytheistic religious beliefs along with similar temples built to worship their deities. While the Aztecs were the most prominent users of human sacrifice, the Mayans also participated in such rituals. A few differences between these civilizations were the social structure, natural resources, and differing cultural strengths.
Urbanization- Urbanization led to a need for written records and political organization. Cuneiform was used to records economic and political policy. Religious temples of the pantheon (polytheistic) also acted as cultural and political centers. Ancient Laws- Hammurabi’s codes was a strict hierarchal set of laws based on socio economic status (i.e. wealth) from land.
305358723 Rawan Amireh “Women’s role during the Inca Empire” In her article, Andean women in the Inca Empire, the author, Irene Silverblatt tries to illustrate the role of the organizational forms, which were transformed by the Incas to meet requirements of an expanding Empire, in creating new constraints for women. The author tries to clarify that although Endean women had a crucial role in improving the political, economical and religious structure of the Empire, as the Empire improved and expanded, they were being excluded from the state rituals, this shows that the social position of women was lower than men, and even if both genders were essential for the functioning of the conquest hierarchy, only men could really define it. Silverblatt give examples in her article on organization structures that were developed by the Incas during the expansion of the Empire that limited the power of the women and specifically gave the state the control of distributing women, She make a comparison between two organization structures, “aclla” and “yanacona” although the position of the aclla was probably similar to that of the yanacona, since they both were alienated from their communities to perform full time services, but they differ in other important ways, such as the control over women’s sexuality. An another example, was the ability of men to engage in polygamous marriages, however, neither the queen or any other women could legitimately marry more than one man at a time. Changes in political, economical and religious structures in the Inca Empire had different impacts on women and men, and on peasant women and elite women.
New Spain would be under direction of the mother country Spain. Its economy would strive to gain profit and make Spain richer and stronger by its colonial system. The economy was based on agriculture, ranching, mining, industry, and commerce. The majority of labor that would go into doing these jobs would be from the indigenous people. Most indigenous people were treated unfairly or poorly and worked long, hard hours.
He warns women against vocations of preaching or politics, explaining that they can influence public opinion in their homes and communities.” They were strictly housewives and were destined to raise children. As the Industrial Revolution began, the women became more active in the labor force. The Industrial Revolution seemed to be a turning point for many women. Due to the Civil War and the start of the Industrial Revolution, women became involved in more labor-intensive jobs. Although the Industrial Revolution started before the war, with men leaving to fight for the Confederacy or the Union, women needed to start taking the places of men.
The environment around the late 1800s and early 1900s was a changing one in which the countries of Latin America were trying to solidify themselves as independent countries without the ‘support’ of imperialist Europeans. One of the important tasks when doing this was to really create the society that would best support the emerging nation. For Puerto Rico one of the ideas believed to be essential to creating the idea nation was to basically have the best classes of women become more educated so that they could breed higher class, educated citizens. Although not everyone could be of a higher class, if they were moral and more “white” in terms of their actions and behaviors, women who were more educated could also provide productive members of society, “theses well-educated women would provide Puerto Rico with an army of capable mothers to produce future generations of active, manly citizens.” (Findlay, 61) Those who did not fit this image, or were seen as too ‘African’ were blamed for the over sexualized portion of society and could not mix with the upper class. Upper class white people, (almost entirely men,) believed that once the citizens of this more ‘respectable’ class could organize, then the men would in turn, be authorized in ruling over the lower class, “Once able to govern themselves, they could claim
Inca Society Lot of people think ( Like I did before) that Inca means the powerful people of Incan civilization, but truth is that only the king of Inca society was called Inca or more precisely Sapa Inca. His wife was called Coya, who was the queen of that society. Only the family members could be future Inca. It is really difficult to imagine how powerful was the Inca King. As the people of that society believed that King was the son of the Sun, they followed their king with deep respect.
Compare the political organization of the Mayan and Taino In order for any society to be successful, the political system must be one in which order and efficiency are maintained, this is true for the different groups of indigenous peoples who were able to maintain organized political systems. Different groups organized their political systems in various ways, but some similarities were always common.The Mayan and Taino shared a structural political system, but the Mayans were more organized due to the greater emphasis placed on bureaucracy. Ascension to throne was set in both societies so as to eliminate the chance of any chaos being initiated. The eldest son of the Halach Uinic and the Cacique would rule after the death of their father. In the case of the Tainos, if the Cacique did not have an heir, the eldest son of his eldest sister would rule, where no male was available for the position, female ruler ship obtained.