They had a strong monarchy and society was divided in classes as well, however they also had some cool stuff like a "modern state" that engaged in building housing and infrastructure, very efficient at management as they divided production depending on the region, they basically had no money and they were insanely advanced in agricultural methods, they created a super efficient way of transporting food to remote areas. Incas are actually pretty damn interesting, far from being Socialist (then again, that is a modern term) and it's a shame we barely know shit from them because oh well, Spain had an european moment and genocided literally everyone, they also burned everything to the ground, thousands and thousands of books.
Aztecs are also pretty insane when you put then into context, we're talking about a civilization that had a massive City that was Tenochtitlan which had like triple the population than basically any other e*ropean city at that time.
And yes, both were Empires. They dominated a number of peoples often through force. The Spanish greatly benefitted from this during their conquest, as they exploited their differences and gained key allies.... which ended up getting genocided anyway.
The stepstone thing they invented where they dug out terraces downwards and create microclimates to grow crops that prefer warmer weather are rad as hell
You are describing a British Iron age farm. It was effective and an inventive solution to the problem of agriculture at altitude but it wasn't all that advanced
Weren't the Inca imperialists?
They had a strong monarchy and society was divided in classes as well, however they also had some cool stuff like a "modern state" that engaged in building housing and infrastructure, very efficient at management as they divided production depending on the region, they basically had no money and they were insanely advanced in agricultural methods, they created a super efficient way of transporting food to remote areas. Incas are actually pretty damn interesting, far from being Socialist (then again, that is a modern term) and it's a shame we barely know shit from them because oh well, Spain had an european moment and genocided literally everyone, they also burned everything to the ground, thousands and thousands of books.
Aztecs are also pretty insane when you put then into context, we're talking about a civilization that had a massive City that was Tenochtitlan which had like triple the population than basically any other e*ropean city at that time.
And yes, both were Empires. They dominated a number of peoples often through force. The Spanish greatly benefitted from this during their conquest, as they exploited their differences and gained key allies.... which ended up getting genocided anyway.
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Yeah, basically New Kingdom Egypt with some really interesting logistics advances.
They also created a super efficient way of breaking apart kinship units and transporting people to remote areas.
Can't revolt against your inbred imperial overlords when all your neighbors come from different corners of the empire and don't speak your language.
The stepstone thing they invented where they dug out terraces downwards and create microclimates to grow crops that prefer warmer weather are rad as hell
You are describing a British Iron age farm. It was effective and an inventive solution to the problem of agriculture at altitude but it wasn't all that advanced
Talking about these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And%C3%A9n#Micro-climate_modification