FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
MESOAMERICAN CIVILIZATIONS THE OLMECS TO CORTES
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They were able to build a large tax base.
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The surrounding tribes organized against them.
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The Spanish sent for reinforcements to rescue them.
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Neighboring people asked to join the Incas.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The main view is that the Inca were eventually defeated due to inferior weapons, ‘open battle’ tactics, disease, internal unrest, the bold tactics of the Spanish, and the capture of the Inca’s Emperor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Conquered leaders were forced to live alongside other loyal Inca leaders. Their children were sent to Cusco, the capital, to learn alongside Inca children and learn the ways of their conquerors. These people were all included in a class called curacas, just below the noble class.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Inca’s greatest technological skill was engineering. The best example is their amazing system of roads. The Incas built roads across the length of and width of their empire. To create routes through steep mountain ranges, they carved staircases and gouged tunnels out of rock.
Detailed explanation-4: -They were outstanding engineers. Through irrigation systems and terracing (making large horizontal ridges, like stairs, on mountain slopes to create level spaces for farming), the Incas put almost all the arable land (suitable for farming) in their empire to use.