Inca Culture Essay

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Culture is a very precious resource that has been taken for granted many times over the course of history. Humanity will never truly understand the value of culture, and as a race, humans have destroyed multiple precious cultures. One of these societies whose culture has been destroyed is the Inca Empire. Like other societies untouched by outside influences, the Inca Empire had blossomed into its own unique culture. They had their own societal order that functioned in a fashion that was equal in efficiency to other cultures that, at the time, considered themselves more advanced. One of these empires that considered themselves superior was the Spanish Empire. The Spanish went through an era of expansionism. One of their main excursions during …show more content…

This help was not required however, and the Spanish intervention and, ultimately, assimilation spoiled the Incan society beyond repair. The Spanish perceived the Inca as primitive, barbaric, and in need of assistance. This could not have been further from the truth. While the Spanish saw the Incan people as primitive and barbaric, in reality the Inca were much more advanced and organized than the Spanish’s initial perceptions. One particular area of society that showed specific characteristics of the Incan Empire’s modernization is the social structure of the Incas as a whole. The Incas showed particular elements of a structured society in their organization of social classes. In addition, the Incan Empire was concerned with women’s rights far before even Europe, and treated women as equals. Finally, the Inca people were advanced in their willingness to submit to authority, whether this authority is a fellow Incan in power or a perceived deity in the complex Incan religious …show more content…

They were a nomadic group that travelled from place to place depending on where they could get food, and were described by the Spanish as moving “like animals ”. The Spanish considered the first group the most savage and barbaric given the fact that they had no lords, kings, or area of permanent residence. They also wore no form of clothing, which Some of these wandering groups of Inca were entirely leaderless, working rather as a unit of equals that made decisions collectively. While the Spanish considered this primitive, it could be argued that this simple way of government was a crude form of democracy, and was much more effective than the Spanish perceived it to be. Other groups of these wandering tribes were family units, and while they had a communal government as well, they submitted to the one family member that was either the eldest or the one considered most capable. These examples of community government were not savage as the Spanish thought, but rather a different form of government from the monarchies of

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