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Mayan Teotihuacan Zapotec Moche Chavin Wari
dates when group was dominant
250900 AD
600 B.C.~ 200 B.C.
500 BCE~ 900 CE
100 AD~ 800 AD
They were emrged at 900 BC through 200 BC.
600 AD ~ 1100 AD
political structure
Maya was never united as a single empire. There were many political states with centralized government and military leader. The states were connected by trade, political alliances and obligatory tributes.
There’s nothing much known about Teotihuacan empire’s politics, they are just assuming At the beginning of the 2nd century at the latest when the overall urban planning was realized in the hands of an individual leader. The seat of government was most likely located at different places: monumental Xalla, Pyramid of the Sun
They had a King that ruled and would receive the throne regardless of birth right but presented themselves as an acceptableprince. Statehood was important to unification the Zapotec Government.
Warrior priests and lords were the top tier classes of Moche society. They had the right for a throne and only few of them had right to control thousands of commoners. Moche also had Royal Courts.
Their political structure of Chavin is that their government is based on religion. Their capital is Chavin de Huantar, which is located between the trade routes. They also had the priests, administrators and traders who had monetary freedom.
They had ruling elite, minor officials, and artisans in charge. Also, the administrative centers took care of vast resources. Wari Empire’s center part of the cities had religious plazas, makes comfortable for the citizens who are the top tiers. But then these plazas are surrounded by the residential blocks that is separated by streets intervening .
core religious beliefs
Mayan had developed their own sophisticated religion. Mayans believed in the nature gods (like sun or forest) and valued astronomy and astrology. There were many rituals which included human sacfriface.
Teotihuacan means "city where gods were born," They believe that the gods created the universe at this place.
Their main deities were the Batgod, Beydo, Cocijo, Pitao, Cozobi, Copijcha, Coquebila, Huechanna,Kedo, Ndan Pixee Pecala, Coqui Xee individual cities often had their own patron deities. Offerings, prayers and sacrifices were offered to these deities in the hope of their favourable intervention in human affairs
The Moche religion was based around the Moon. They praised the Moon and believed that the Moon is helping them because it lights up the sky when the light is need, unlike the sun, which gloats with light when it is unnecessary.
Their religious belief was that their primary deity is the animal with snakes with hair and long fangs. This animal is represented as to balance out the opposing energies like the bad and the good. They also had an large temple to hold the ceremony.
Nowdays, it is proven that the Wari people adapted and controlled the religion Pachacamac. This religion Pachacamac attracted all the believers in Peru, and also thi place is important at the coastal region.
main agricultural practices
Corn, beans, bananas, cacao, chile, maguey and cotton.
Teotihuacan’s lands had a fertile soil and abundant amount of water, which made ideal for farming.
The majority of Zapotec in all regions are peasant farmers, practicing a mixture of subsistence
Corn, potatoes, beans. Moche changed the flows of rivers in
They are used to domesticate llamas, or sell them. They are also very skilled at
Intensive agriculture based on terracing of steep mountain slopes was probably
Corn, grain, cactus and beans were farmed, because they were easy to grow, cultivate and store.
and cash agriculture with some animal husbandry. The primary subsistence crops are maize, beans, and squashes; various other crops are grown, depending on the climate, the availability of irrigation sources, and soil conditions.
order to create channels to enhance the agriculture.
the techniques they used on the agriculture. They also grew crops like maizes.
first used by the central highland ancestors of the Wari (Huarpa culture).
trade networks
Mayan traded within their political states. They didn’t have any currency or a stable price for items. The prices of items varied in different cities. They used food, cloth, basic pottery, tools as a substitution for money.
Teotihuacan traded with Mayan people. Through trade they received materials that were unavailable in their lands.
Oaxaca is known for its highly developed market system, and the Zapotee are renowned for their commercial activities. Since preHispanic times, the Zapotee have maintained trade routes through much of Oaxaca. Products were
Moche maintained an elaborate trading network. Moche traded with people of Amazon basin.
The trade networks of Chavin is that it is located near the Chavin de Huantar, which is the major route that traders use it for years. The trade route that is located in Chavin de Huantar set up elaborate trade networks, and they
They were connected into a trading network across the Andes, in which figurines, ceramic vessels, textiles and metal objects were made in Wari and traded out.
carried by tumpline, a device that is still used by farmers to transport such loads as firewood.
build the ornate style of art.
major strength
Powerful agriculture, complex religion and their own writing system.
Most important and largest city of preAztec central Mexico, located about 30 milesnortheast of modern Mexico City. Population estimated at 125,000–200,000
The Zapotecs strengths is they are good expressing there feeling in to art work and they are good creating there own clothes. Also they are more civilized together. So that is some of there strengths and weaknesses.
Moche were experts of smithing, weaving and pottery. They were extremely good at managing water hrough building canals.
Their major strength in order to become a greater empire is the trade of the llamas or camelids. Or Chavin de Huantar that made them more a greater empire.
Their strength was mainly agruculture.
major weakness (cause of decline)
Overpopulation (which grew into social unrest, revolutions and warring states)
They were too realigious and not tradewell empire to prevent wars.
The zapotecs weakness was with another mighty group, the Mixtecs, for control over their vast lands.The reason for
Moche didn’t have a proper communication system.
The decline of the Chavin empire is that they had overpopulated, so their rate of trading got more less
Environmental change and internal sociopolitical stresses
its decline is yet to be discovered.
frequently. This created more chaos to the people. The overlydom esticated people made them fall.
