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Question for February 2014

Did the Aztecs ever meet the Incas?? Asked by Smannell & Enham CE Primary School. Chosen and answered by Professor Elizabeth Graham

Not that we know of!

(Professor Cecelia Klein, also on our Panel of Experts, adds: There is no evidence, either documentary or archaeological, that the Aztecs ever met the Inkas.)

Our In-House Team add: this must be the shortest answer we’ve put on our website to date! Though the Aztecs in Mexico and the Incas in Peru built empires at much the same time, it seems they never knew of each other’s existence. Now just imagine if they had...!

Images: Painting by Miguel Covarrubias (detail) (L), photo from Wikipedia (R).

Professor Elizabeth Graham has answered 11 questions altogether.

What if an Aztec warrior died or was killed in battle?

Did the Aztecs force you to be who you were - 1?

Did people get paid for cleaning the city?

Did the Aztecs ever meet the Incas?

Why did the Aztec gods destroy the four previous worlds?

Were babies stolen from mothers in Aztec markets?

Most interesting fact you’ve come across about the Aztecs (2)

What percentage of Aztec society were slaves?

What was the WORST job to have in Aztec times?

If you lived in Aztec times, what would you change?

What did Aztec schools look like inside?

Comments (2)

cosca cuauhtli

20th Nov 2014

Ofcourse we are a people of oral tradition since the churches burned most of our books. So this info was passed down by word.

cosca cuauhtli

20th Nov 2014

Actually the indigenous elders of Ixtlan de rio, Nayarit say that the Incas would travel to Nayarit to hold ceremony and have done so for hundreds of years up until the spanish invasion that put a hold on things till recently. Every year a handful of peruvians come back there on the day of the flower to continue with the tradition their ancestors carried. This was also confirmed with a peruvian elder that is well connected in the native world.