A few differences between these civilizations were the social structure, natural resources, and differing cultural strengths. The Aztec and Mayan Civilizations in Americas The Mayan and Aztec civilizations were the earliest advanced civilizations in Central and South America. Each was different but they still shared a few similar traits. They had a daily life revolving around religious rituals generally requiring human sacrifices. Both civilizations had their own calendar and counting system along with polytheistic religious beliefs.
There cultures were very different and yet similar, before the Europeans discovered America, the Aztec, Mayans, and Inca Empires were very different compared to the Pueblo peoples culture, but at they were also very alike in many cultural aspects. The Aztec, Mayan, and Incas differed in many was to that of the Pueblo people. All three tribes practiced human sacrifice but for different reasons; the Aztecs practiced human sacrifice because they believed their God demanded them, the Mayans practiced human sacrifice to maintain order and to maintain
The white settlers often found it difficult to understand the culture of the plains Indians because they had a rather large clash of cultures on things such as religion, warfare, land, government, exposure, education, polygamy and their ways of life. One of the reasons the white settlers found the Indians so hard to understand was the difference in religion, Indians believed the Great Spirit Waken Tanka created the world and ruled over it. They believed all things had spirits and that spirits could influence their lives. They also thought of the world as a great circle this was reflected in their everyday lives which is shown by the presence of circles on many articles of their clothing and on the designs of tipis. The white settlers saw the Indians’ belief in the spirits as superstitious and pagan nonsense as they believed in God and that God created the world and ruled over it so some saw the Indians as people who ‘needed saving’ this led to some of the white settlers trying to convert the Indians to Christianity which the Indians did not like.
The Incas had a polytheistic belief system, which means they idolized several gods at the same time because they believed there was a god for each facet of the planet such as the sun, the moon, the lightening or even the rain. Though the Incas believed in many gods, one of the most important for them was Wiracocha because he was believed to be the creator of the planet and every single living creatures. The Incas based their belief system on him, he affected many of their layers of worship and beliefs. But they went further than that in their religion with the secondary tier also known as the astral level. In this level the Incas involved many worship with gods within the dimension of earth such as the moon or the sun.
This was a similarity between Egypt and Mesopotamia because during this time period people relied on water for many things such as drinking, bathing and most importantly for keeping their land fertile. They relied on this fertile land to grow their own food. Not everyone had easy access to the river. Therefore these civilizations build irrigational systems to carry out water for everyone to access it. Despite these similarities, Egypt had greater differences with Mesopotamia.
Meghan Bohles January 11, 2015 Formal Essay Greek mythology and Native American myths are more connected then people may think they are. For one they are polytheist, the belief in, or woship of more then one god. They both make sacrifices to these gods, and they both got run over by other groups of people. These three points are the connection between Atala and Odyssey. In Atala the Native Americans worshiped more than one god, and they are very closely related to the Greek gods.
The Mayan civilization originated in the southern areas of Mexico at about 2600 B.C. The Mayans were the first heirs of the Olmec’s, the first civilization in Mesoamerica. After the Olmec’s disappearance many different societies arose in Mesoamerica and the human population grew quickly as well. The Mayans settled in Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and Belize. Guatemala’s fertile soil made agriculture very easy and successful for the Mayans so permanent settlements began to rise.
Religion is perhaps the strongest force in society. But what is religion? Some would say that our distant ancestors invented it as a way to explain the strange and mysterious world around them; Others say that religion is simply truth. In its broad sense religion is a complex system of beliefs, practices, and attitudes by which people relate their lives to supernatural beings or principles and shapes the way we act as people towards other humans, plants and animals. There are many different religions in the world today; Some of these religions are growing, while some are decreasing in the number of their members.
There were also old Egyptian structures that had to be carefully moved to avoid destruction from the new path of the river. These relocations sparked controversy and resistance from the Egyptian people due to the old structures being a large part of the tourist attraction in Egypt. Another big problem the Dam caused was with the soil around the river. Normally the soil was very good for farming, even with the annual floods, but the construction of the Dam caused the nutrients in the water to stop flowing to the soil. The result was poor farmland and in turn, the poverty of the farmers wasn’t completely solved.
“Science is right & religion is wrong.” I personally, believe that this statement is not correct. This is because, there are some phenomenons in this world and in this universe that science can’t explain but religion however can- an example of this is would be the Mayan civilization; They predicted many of the natural disasters that came to be and they were far more advanced than us. This clearly proves that science is not always right and religion is not always wrong. Most Muslims would contradict this statement. This is due to the fact that Muslims believe that we (Humanity) are in the progress of learning and that we will come to understand the truth one day.