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What role did Indigenous Americans play in the collapse of the Aztec and Inca Empires?
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What role did Indigenous Americans play in the collapse of the Aztec and Inca Empires? The role of the Indigenous Americans in the demise of both the Aztec and Inca empires was one of division, in that the people acted in both support and opposition to the invading Spaniards, and so knowingly or ignorantly had a role in the fall of their Empires. The Aztec and Inca empires were both vast agricultural societies in the form of imperial states.1 They were both sophisticated, powerful and highly organised, however during the early fifteenth century they both went through a highly divisive period resulting in not only civil war in the empire of the Incas but also the final fall of both empires, including the Aztec's. This can be seen as a significant contributing factor to the seemingly easy conquest by such a small band of Spaniards in each case. The fall of the...
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