Both Incas and Aztecs saw themselves as continuing older traditions. In what ways was this true, and in what ways did they innovate?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Continuing old traditions
1. gathering many diverse environments into one state to facilitate
exchanging a wide range of products
2. Aztecs product supplied the blood that fueled the universe: human-
sacrifice victims, captured in war or tendered in tribute
3. continuing the traditions of ruined supremacies of the past
a. Tula and Teotihuacán in the Aztec case, Tiahuanaco for the
Incas
B. Innovations
1. Incas took the well-established practice of ecological imperialism to
new lengths
a. tribute system was a form of insurance against disaster
b. uprooted populations and transferred them to new locations
according to the needs of the system
2. Aztec tribute system
a. networks linked hundreds of communities
b. left most communities to govern themselves as long as they
paid up
3. reach of their power seems to have exceeded anything either region had
witnessed before
a. demographic growth crossed a critical threshold in both areas
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