When Spanish conquistadors began their conquest of South and Central America, they met very little resistance from the Maya civilization there. Why were the Maya so easy for the Spanish to defeat? A: The Mayas had joined the Incas in the mountains of South America, centuries before the Spanish arrived.

B: The Mayan culture and population had been weaked by a long-lasting and severe drought, centuries before the Spanish arrived.

C: The Mayas were a peace-loving people who were not willing to fight back against the Spanish mercenaries.

D: The Mayas had been defeated by the Aztecs and absorbed into their culture, a century before the Spanish arrived.

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women in ancient egypt had many legal rights, including the right to own property and businesses.

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answer: both considered peasants valued members of society.

explanation: the ancient chinese and indian empires were large asian empires that had the same problems with other big empires, they had to work hard and sometimes fight in order to keep them united, they both relied heavily on their capacity to trade and to send strange and rare items to europe, and had the father as the head of the house hold in both societies, but they didn´t considered pleasants as valued members of their society, they were the bottom of the social pyramid in both of their societies.