As a band turns to a tribe,and that tribe turns to a chiefdom, and grows further more into a State, the population grows with a requirement for more food and a higher necessity to support its members of society. Throughout the Americas societies have found several ways to gather food varying from hunting animals on lands to fishing the sea to finding fruits on trees to others having to experiment and grow crops on a variety of lands such as the Mayas, Incas and Aztecs.
Although there aren't any pictures or videos to document how these empires lived exactly, technology, re-experimentation and present day tribes in the same locations help us understand how these societies have rose and maintained agricultural systems. Starting with the Mayas …show more content…
Most of their land had coastal areas or easy access to water through rivers or lakes which made it possible for the Aztecs to build gardens called “Chinampas”. Basically chinampas are a small or semi large gardens placed in shallow lake waters that had sediment, mud and decaying matter to grow plants on and was often surrounded by trees or walls to protect vegetation. To prevent depletion of the nutrients, farmers often used rotations among areas of farming and Chinampas …show more content…
(http://macareo. pucp. edu. pe/~ jearls/documentosPDF/theCharacter. PDF). The reason for this is that the Incas used such use of their lands from coastal areas to the highest of altitudes to the lowlands of the Amazon jungle to grow different crops using different atmospheric pressures, weather and rain available. (lhttp://macareo. pucp. edu. pe/~ jearls/documentosPDF/theCharacter. PDF). Due to constant innovation and experimentation by the Incas they were able to develop over 70 types of crops that include potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, chilies, cotton, tomatoes, peanuts, quenia, oca, and coca. Not only did the Incas have farmers but also used llamas for wool, ropes,and food. Smaller groups such as the Allyu would have smaller self supporting farms in which stone tipped clubs were used to break up clods and bronze-braided hoes for digging and yielded up to 20 varieties of corn and 240 varieties of potatoes. A big innovation that the high altitudes of the Incan lands provided was cold weather which allowed some crops to freeze and to be conserved(INCA
Although there aren't any pictures or videos to document how these empires lived exactly, technology, re-experimentation and present day tribes in the same locations help us understand how these societies have rose and maintained agricultural systems. Starting with the Mayas …show more content…
Most of their land had coastal areas or easy access to water through rivers or lakes which made it possible for the Aztecs to build gardens called “Chinampas”. Basically chinampas are a small or semi large gardens placed in shallow lake waters that had sediment, mud and decaying matter to grow plants on and was often surrounded by trees or walls to protect vegetation. To prevent depletion of the nutrients, farmers often used rotations among areas of farming and Chinampas …show more content…
(http://macareo. pucp. edu. pe/~ jearls/documentosPDF/theCharacter. PDF). The reason for this is that the Incas used such use of their lands from coastal areas to the highest of altitudes to the lowlands of the Amazon jungle to grow different crops using different atmospheric pressures, weather and rain available. (lhttp://macareo. pucp. edu. pe/~ jearls/documentosPDF/theCharacter. PDF). Due to constant innovation and experimentation by the Incas they were able to develop over 70 types of crops that include potatoes, sweet potatoes, maize, chilies, cotton, tomatoes, peanuts, quenia, oca, and coca. Not only did the Incas have farmers but also used llamas for wool, ropes,and food. Smaller groups such as the Allyu would have smaller self supporting farms in which stone tipped clubs were used to break up clods and bronze-braided hoes for digging and yielded up to 20 varieties of corn and 240 varieties of potatoes. A big innovation that the high altitudes of the Incan lands provided was cold weather which allowed some crops to freeze and to be conserved(INCA