the Aztecs and Incas. These two civilization were both said to be

conquered by the Spanish, but it wasn’t just the Spanish who

conquered them. These two civilizations both fell from a

combination of a weak government, lack of technology, new

disease introduced by the invaders, and not being prepared for the

For many centuries the Aztec civilization revolved around a

ideological, social, and political system in which expansion was the

cornerstone. Expansion was the cornerstone of their whole

civilization, because their religion requested that a large number of

human sacrifices where to be made to the gods. To get the

sacrifices the Aztec went to war with other tribes in Mexico to get

these human sacrifices (Conrad & Demmest 47-49) . With each

conquest more sacrifices and more land was added to the Aztec

kingdom. The Aztec were a strong civilization who were familiar

with organized large scale war, had specialized war chiefs, and a

well organized system of territorial levy in which large armies could

be amassed in a short time (Age of Reconnaissance 124-125). They

may have been well organized for war, but they were not prepared

boarders. The Catholic church came to the America’s, because

need to take prisoner to sacrifice, they were not untied with other

found in the America’s lured many men looking to get rich quick.

These are some of the reason to why Europeans ventured in this

commercial land holding and a system of forced labor. Discipline

against him. In 1529 a civil war broke out between the crowned

his men when they were heading back to Cuzco (Inca Decline

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