The most powerful Meso American culture?

Excuse me if this is irritating,  I am new so if it is please forgive me.

Which do you think was the most powerful Meso American culture?(As far as conquering)

I would have to say the Inca,  basically because of their use of bronze weapons,  and their advanced abilities with forts(it is said that some of their fortifications resembled star forts of the 17th and 18th century).  They also happened to have one of the best logistics systems that the world has ever seen.

Hey, I was going to say Toltecs first...j/k

Aztecs are pretty cool as well.  Their calenders were the most accurate until recently.

Heh.......sorry I was mistaken with the Incas(I know they live in South America)  I thought the term Meso American meant Mexico central and south america. 

I would have to say the Aztecs,  At their peak they were probably more powerful than the Toltecs at their peak,  their weapons,  while ,made out of the same materials were more advanced than Toltec weapons.

Culturally it was the Mayans but I like the Incas just for the sole fact of if it wasn't for dynastic conflict they were the most likely native population to curb european conquest.

Do you know whether the Aztecs and Inkas knew of each others existence? Did they send embassadors to each other or something like that?

Incas had wheels too, but used them for little more than children's toys.

Actually you have to wonder what the Incan empire would have been like if they made the connection and used llamas to pull carts with wheels.

That wheel connection isn't as obvious as it looks I suspect.  OIt is to us because we all see wheels literally every day from birth and it's been that way for thousands upon thousands of years, be they cars or carts.  but I suspect the original thought was rather revolutionary.

Any of you guys notice that all the countries that had great ancient civilizations are today relatively poor nations?

Egypt - Ancient Egypt

Greece - Ancient Greece, Minoa

Tunisia - Carthage

China - China, Tibet

India - Indus Valley civilization, Mauryan Empire, whatever else

Mexico - Aztec civilization

Hundouras - Mayan Empire

Peru - Incan civilization

Armenia - Armenian Empire

Georgia - Georgian Kingdom

Italy - (well, compared to some European nations) Rome, Eturia, Magna Grecia(?)

Iran - Elam, Persia, Parthia, Sassanian Persia

 

I mean, wow, did any of you guys actually notice this?

Africa was MUCH better off befoer the Europeans came,  The argument that they were living on the dark before is BS.  Zimbabwe, Mali, Ghana, Kongo, where all organized kingdoms and Mali was arguable the wealthiest kingdom of the 15th century.  What the slave trade did was rob a continent of over 200,000,000 inhabitants and make the economies dependent on exportation.

Although Europe and African slave traders cant take all the blame, Morrocco also destroyed large libraries containing masses of knowledge and cities were lost in the Sudan.

 

Also, in response to Darios point, I think the higher you rise the harder you fall, everyone has a time in the sun, America was once a farming backwater, now a world superpower, and in the future it wont be number 1 power anymore.