From the Aztecs Their Tax Systems; Of the Incas Their Accounts, And of the Mayas Their Scripture; The Outcome is the Pre-Columbian Accounting (*)

Year 2016, Issue: 10 - Issue: 10, 181 - 244, 01.01.2016

Reynaldo Frausto Mena

Abstract

On this occasion, I speak as three of the greatest Pre-Columbian cultures theylet us different legacies that manifest such as a whole they exercised their accounting,primarily over who and in what form they practiced this. Also I will expose of thethree different Pre-Columbian cultures, both at space and in time, such as: The Azteca(Mexico), The Inca (Peru), and The Maya (Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras and El Salvador).I discuss of these Pre-Columbian cultures from these three populationswho are to talk about at that time they were very brilliant, as distinguished from otherby their systems, same that empires reached to form genuine.The Aztecs bequeathed us their taxation systems,were the last in arrivingValley of Mexico where they established the capital of Tenochtitlan (1325).Kingdom which dominated cultural and politically Mesoamerica Over the fourteenthcentury and first quarter of sixteenth They were located within the geographical areathat corresponds to southern half of the contemporary Mexico, where he developed agreat cultural activity since approximately 2000 BC. In this region lived in varioustowns, some of whom us are all left their thriving culture as in the case of thearchaeological remains the City of Teotihuacan, and uninhabited when the Spanisharrived.The Incas left us like their representation of mathematicalits operationsperforming. The foundation of the history of The Incas was based with de God ofCreation, TiciViracocha, who left the Rio Titicaca. People who lived nearby hadoffended the Grat god, so he destroyed the people and turned them into stone. Afterthis, Viracocha, created the Sun, Moon and new forms of human life to be distributed to different sites along the West coast of South America.They established a vast empire in The Andes in the fifteenth century.They were great conquerors, his empire stretched from northern Chile to southern Colombia, covering the current territory of Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador to The Pacific.

Keywords

Aztecs Tax System, Accounts, Pre-Columbian Accounting.