Question

Compare and contrast two urban civilizations in the Americas pre-contact

Answer 1

Ans.

1. Maya civilisation

it was a civilisation that came up in current states of Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, El Sarvador, Haiti etc. they had big city states amd the local kings also who were in conflict with neighbouring states for power and to get access of the trade routes by extending their kingdom.

From the beginning, they occupied the fertile lands. they had temples and various cities were famous as trade towns. But still there was no any strong power that could emerge in whole American continent because of continuous conflict which caused huge losses to each other and no one could come up.

2. On the other hand, there were other civilisations like Wari and Moche which were living in the Andes mountains and very well engaged in irrigation and other agricultural activities. They had some agricultural towns where these products used to be brought for sell and purchase. They had better developed city planning and roadways since these communities flourished together and had better relationship with each other. The city planning found here is explicit and well done. They were among the first who started doing agriculture clearing the forests on the hills and which were among the first to discover shifting cultivation. The important cities were very well connected with all the trade centres and the production centres.

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