This video provides a detailed map-based summary of Pre-Columbian America, exploring the vast range of indigenous societies, from the advanced urban centers of the Maya, Aztec, and Inca empires to ...

This includes after the 16th century conquest of the Inca and notwithstanding the suppressed 18th century Túpac Amaru II rebellion. Politicians and institutions sometimes used the glories of the past ...

The people -- 3. The ruling class -- 4. The achievements -- [Part 3] Inca -- 1. The historical and geographical background of the Incas -- 2. The people -- 3. The Inca and his city -- 4. The ...

When Hernan Cortes, the Spaniard who conquered Mexico, and his small army first saw the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1519, many in the group wondered aloud if they were dreaming. Rising in stun… ...

Maya civilization was much vaster ... Archaeologists unearth a 500-year-old tower of skulls — and another gruesome Aztec mystery. ... We just throw it out to make our maps,” he told The ...

The civilizations of the Inca of Peru and of the Aztec of Mexico lacked the splendour of the Maya of Central America. Nature - The Maya Civilization Of Yucatan Skip to main content ...

The beginning of the end. With the arrival from Spain in 1532 of Francisco Pizarro and his entourage of mercenaries or "conquistadors," the Inca empire was seriously threatened for the first time.

Ancient civilizations in much of Mexico and Central America were making different grades of rubber 3,000 years before Charles Goodyear "stabilized" the stuff in the mid-19th century, new research ...

If you have a hard time telling your Maya from your Aztecs, are unsure of the fate of this once-thriving civilization, or just have questions about that whole end-of-the-world-prediction business ...