![]() ![]() It was perhaps this tendency that led to their easy downfall. The Incas on the other hand were a peace loving people. They would go to war in order to be able to take captives for sacrifice. In fact sacrifice was an integral part of their culture. They usually sacrificed llamas to the sun god. They even played a ball game called Tlatchli, in which the losers were sacrificed. The Aztecs were a particularly fierce people as evidenced even by their social and cultural practices. Corn, beans and squash were their staple diet. They had devised a most ingenious system of farming on terraces carved out of hill sides, which they irrigated using water drawn from canals and streams. ![]() The Incas on the other hand lived on the South Eastern Coast of South America in what is now modern Peru, from 1450 AD to 1535 AD. These floating gardens were called Chinampas. They would keep soil on rafts made of reeds, and plant them with seeds. Though an extremely war like race, they had developed a fine technique of agriculture. The Aztecs held sway in Central Mexico between 1325 AD and 1523 AD. Pre-European in origin, both these civilizations of Native American peoples were as grand as any of the old world, and even today we marvel at their accomplishments.īoth these civilizations of course had their distinct markers as they evolved differently. We all have memories from school lessons of these two great civilizations from South America. ![]()
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