Chapter 12

A lot of significant events happened in the fifteenth century. We first read about the Paleolithic people. These people were hunter and gatherers and learned much from the outsiders. Over at the Islamic world, the most notable empire of the fifteenth century was the Ottoman Empire. The Ottoman Empire was a great empire with a professional culture and economy, and had a diverse amount of people. To the east, the Safavid Empire was introducing a separation of political and religious ideologies. Across the ocean we go to the Americas. In the Americas there was the Aztec and Inca empires. In the Aztec empire, they had a powerful and well-structured empire with an estimate of 6 million people. The Aztecs were known for their sacrificial rituals in order to please their gods.  More to the south was the Inca Empire. The Incas were more of a bureaucratic empire, meaning their government was not elected.

In the Incas women were also important to their civilization. Women with special skills in textiles, metal goods, and other related skills were taking away from their homes as young girls. These young girls would be trained in Inca ideology and be trained to be a hard worker. After reading that I thought that they would be sent back to their homes, but they were taken away as a young girl. So once older, they do not have any children or a husband to go back to. So instead they would be given away to men as wives. Some would become priestesses and were known as “wives of the sun." It is a good thing that we do not follow the same ideologies as they did in the fifteenth century.