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- The Maya civilization shares many features with other Mesoamerican civilizations due to the high degree of interaction and cultural diffusion that characterized the region. - The Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. - Had many excellent medical practices. - No one really knows what caused the collapse of the Mayan culture. - The last Maya state existed until 1697.
- The Incas were a distinct people with a distinct language living in a highland center, Cuzco. - They began to expand their influence in the twelfth century and in the early sixteenth century, they exercised control over more territory than any other people had done in South American history. - Developed medicine remedies and treatments, art styles, magnificent pottery, technology in many fields, weapons development, complex metallurgy processes, war strategy, amazing architecture and much more. - The language they spoke was Quechua which they imposed on all the peoples they conquered. - The central god of the Incan religion was the sun-god, the only god that had temples built for him.
- The Aztecs were a Mesoamerican people of central Mexico in the 14th, 15th and 16th century. - Were a civilization with a rich mythology and cultural heritage. - Their capital was Tenochtitlan on the shore of Lake Texcoco (The site of modern-day Mexico City). - Aztec referred to themselves as Mexica or Tenochca. - Aztec culture is generally grouped with the cultural complex known as the nahuas, because of the common language they shared.
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