World History I

Chapter 15: The Rise of Empires in the Americas
1500 to 1750

68: Mon, May 18, 2026

Please post in the forum for the day a short essay in response to this question:

Your text emphasizes the use of reciprocity as a major governing tool among the Tiwanaku specifically, but it implies throughout the chapter that this practice was widely employed in Mesoamerica and South America.

• How was reciprocity practiced in Tiwanaku?
• What are the advantages and disadvantages of using reciprocity to govern?
• How are the concepts and practices of reciprocity related to our power vocabulary? Do they involve vis, potestas, auctoritas, imperium, ius, or licentia?
• Why does reciprocity eventually appear to fail?

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