Mayas Vs. Incas
“Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall,” a quote from Frank Lloyd Wright. The Mayan and the Incan cultures were very different from one another. Who are the Incan people and the Mayan people and how did they relate and differ from each other?The Mayan empire was located in Mexico and Central America. The Maya area is situated in the southeastern part of Meso-America, which is also the most diverse land in the world. The Mayan civilization contained all of the Yucatán Peninsula, in the present-day Mexico, and parts of the present-day Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador. There are two natural settings in the land of the Maya, highlands and lowlands. Volcanoes dominate the Mayan highlands, both extinct and active. This land curves down from southeastern Chipas towards lower Central America. Rain and erosion have made a rough landscape, with deep ravines, and there are few broad valleys. The highland vegetation is closely related to the soils and topography. On the tops of the slopes and ridges, pines and grasses grow. But down in the ravines where there’s moisture, oaks domin
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