Believe it or not, civilizations that were over 1,000 years old have influence on how we live our lives today. Civilizations such as the Mayans, Incas, and Aztecs all had multiple influences in our world. The Aztecs were alive around 1845 A.D. Their settlement was named ‘Tenochtitlan’. This settlement was built on a swamp, so it was difficult to move throughout the settlement and to grow crops. But, the Aztecs adapted by “traveling around through canoes and farming special plots of land called chinampas” (Maldonado 14-17). An early Aztec invention that has affected our lives today is the art they created. They “wove cotton cloth, made pottery, carved in stone and other materials, made musical instruments and elaborate costumes of feathers”
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The Mayans class system is sort of like the class system today in that there is a lower, upper, and middle class. Mayans also “showed early signs of studying astrology” (Hopkins 18). Today people all around the world study the stars and the way the plants and earth move around related to the position of the sun. The Inca empire, at its height, stretched over 2,000 miles. They had to adapt to the growth of their empire, so they built “well constructed roads and strong rope bridges” (Patel 9-10). Nowadays, we have roads all over the place! Also, the Incas showed the first signs of modern-day mail carrying. In most early civilizations, it took many days to get messages across the empire. But, the Incas had “an elaborate system of relay runners” (Patel 11). This is just like how today, we have many mail offices across the country, and even the world, and your mail travels from one to another until it reaches its destination. In conclusion, the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations all had multiple influences in our world today. So, the next time you think ‘This has nothing to do with me!’, remember how many advances we have gotten from these three
The Mayans class system is sort of like the class system today in that there is a lower, upper, and middle class. Mayans also “showed early signs of studying astrology” (Hopkins 18). Today people all around the world study the stars and the way the plants and earth move around related to the position of the sun. The Inca empire, at its height, stretched over 2,000 miles. They had to adapt to the growth of their empire, so they built “well constructed roads and strong rope bridges” (Patel 9-10). Nowadays, we have roads all over the place! Also, the Incas showed the first signs of modern-day mail carrying. In most early civilizations, it took many days to get messages across the empire. But, the Incas had “an elaborate system of relay runners” (Patel 11). This is just like how today, we have many mail offices across the country, and even the world, and your mail travels from one to another until it reaches its destination. In conclusion, the Maya, Inca, and Aztec civilizations all had multiple influences in our world today. So, the next time you think ‘This has nothing to do with me!’, remember how many advances we have gotten from these three