Teotihuacan
-Forced relocation and chinampas
-Oligarchy
-Military protected trade and ensured tax payment
Maya
-Numerous city-states
-Religious and political rituals to draw in the masses
-Raised agriculture
-Women worked in agriculture and textile production
-Calendar, the concept of zero, and a writing system
Aztecs
-Monarchy
-Tribute system acquired labor and goods from defeated peoples
-Severe gap between poor and wealthy
-Women were empowered in the household and marketplace
Moche
-No formal empire or political structure
-Forced labor out of commoners
-Highly stratified and theocratic
-Skilled artisans with high quality products
-Opulent elite
Inca
-Used state and military power to broaden and expand trade
-Mit'a labor
-Inca ruler and royal family
-Khipus
-Severe gap between elite and commoners
