Why did Native Americans not invent the wheel?
Why did Native Americans not invent the wheel? It's certainly possible that it was invented independently other times, but no record has been found. In places isolated from Eurasia and Africa—such as the Americas and Australia, there were no wheels. Native Americans had no draft animals, which was the primary requirement for needing them.
Are Aztecs Mayans?
The Aztecs were Nahuatl-speaking people who lived in central Mexico in the 14th to 16th centuries. Their tribute empire spread throughout Mesoamerica. The Maya people lived in southern Mexico and northern Central America — a wide territory that includes the entire Yucatán Peninsula — from as early as 2600 BC.