The similarities between the societies found in Brazil and
those found in the Andean Highlands are relatively few. The
Andean Highland dwellers were mostly Incas, found in
greatest numbers in Peru. The inhabitants of Brazil were
mainly concentrated around the Amazon River Basin area.
The Andean Highland people consisted in large part of the
Inca civilization (the name of the ruling family, not an
ethnicity). However, the geographic location of these
societies is not the only disparity that exist between these
groups of people. Perhaps the most striking of the
differences is the characteristics of these societies and the
advancements, or lack of, that where achieved in each. With
each group having distinct characteristics in the way of life,
government, and labor, this affected the colonizing groups in
significantly different ways and ultimately lead to the
prosperity or decline of the colony at that specific time. The
forms of rule in the Amazon Basin and the Andean......
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