Aztecs_and_Native_Americans

Aztecs and Native Americans Two of the biggest and greatest civilization in the Americas were the Aztecs and Incas. These two civilization were both said to be conquered by the Spanish, but it wasn’t just the Spanish who conquered them. These two civilizations both fell from a combination of a weak government, lack of technology, new disease introduced by the invaders, and not being prepared for the invaders. For many centuries the Aztec civilization revolved around a ideological, social, and political system in which expansion was the cornerstone. Expansion was the cornerstone of their whole civilization, because their religion requested that a large number of human sacrifices where to be made to the gods. To get the sacrifices the Aztec went to war with other tribes in Mexico to get these human sacrifices (Conrad & Demmest 47-49) . With each conquest more sacrifices and more land was added to the Aztec kingdom. The Aztec were a strong civilization who were familiar with organized large scale war, had specialized war chiefs, and a well organized system of territorial levy in which large armies could be amassed in a short time (Age of Reconnaissance 124-125). They may have been well organized for war, but they were not prepared for internal changes in there civilization. When expansion was no longer an option there system crumbled. Without expansion aztecs, spanish, civilization, war, system, men, inca, americas, age, two, spaniards, sacrifices, organized, just, incas, expansion, emperor, because, aztec, weapons, self, reconnaissance, one, mummies, made, large, civil, became, atauhualpa, arrival, america’s, years, wealth, way, upon, unity, tribes, royal, technology, take, stone, steal, social, short, royal, reforms, problems, political