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>>118745506>>118745624>>118753894Firstly, anon, I'd suggest you read "1491: New Relavations of the Americas Before Columbus", it's a good starting place.
Anyways, like any other landmass, you had different cultures and societies in different areas.
Some areas had more complex, urbanized societies then other areas: Mesoamerica (the bottom half of Mexico,Guatemala, Belize,and bits of Honduras/El Salvador) and the Andes (Peru and bits of adjacent countries were the two areas with the most urbanized, stratified societies with large cities, formal, complex governments, etc, roughly but not perfectly comparable to Ancient and Classical Civilizations in Europe, the Near East, and Asia like the Egyptians, Greeks, etc. The Aztec and Maya are Mesoamerican, whilew the Inca are Andean, but both regions have many other complex civilizations beyond just those: There's also the Olmec, Zapotec, Mixtec, Teotihuacano, Classic Veracruz, Toltec Huastec, Totonac,Purepecha, etc for Mesoamerica (see image in
>>118716463 ), and the Chavin, Paracas, Recuay, Moche, Wari, Tiwanku, Sican, and Chimu for the Andeans, among dozens of other less notable groups. So the Aztec, Maya, and Inca aren't a unique trio even for those two areas, none of these groups are "tribes", but city-states, kingdoms, and empires.
However, the other areas weren't just primitive nomadic tribes, either: Up in the Eastern US, especially along the Mississipi river, you had a long history of sedentary, agricultural socities ("Moundbuilders", the Mississipians were the most recent group these) who built larger villages and towns and even some urbanized cities (albiet still made from wood and earthenworks) like Cahokia, see pic
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