During the 14th century, the Inca empire was the largest empire in the world . The Inca empire stretched across the Andes from Ancient Peru to Quito to Santiago. There was an estimated 10 million people living in the Inca civilization. The name of their empire was Tawantinsuyu, meaning “ Land of Four Quarters.” The Inca empire was separated into four quarters. The North quarter was named Chinchaysuyu, the East was Antisuyu, South was Collasuyu, and the West quarter Cuntisuyu. Cuzco is the capital of the Inca empire. Cuzco became the capital when the very first Inca settled there. One thing the Inca were very good at was construction. Some of the things they built were houses, temples, pyramids, and even roads and highways. Their houses they …show more content…
The were small so family’s slept on the floor with just a blanket. The most commonly built building of the Inca was a qollqa, a one room storage room. The Inca built lots of popular cities. One of their most famous cities is Machu Picchu. Machu Picchu is a sacred village located high in the Andes above the clouds. The Inca built Machu Picchu high above the clouds so that their enemies couldn’t see them. This village was home to over 1,000 people.
The Inca existed in a time period around the 14th and mid 15th century. The first Inca man and women were Manco Capac and his sister Mama Oqllu. Manco Capac became the first ever leader of the Inca and established Cuzco as the capital of the new Inca empire. Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui soon after became the first Sapa Inca in 1438. The Sapa Inca is the supreme ruler of the Inca. In 1471, Inca Tupac Yupanqui took over the Sapa Inca position. During his time
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Some of the fun things they did were play games such as tag, chase, and hide and seek, they also attended festivals and carnivals. These festivals included food, music, and dancing. The food they ate was mostly vegetables, guinea pig, dog, and duck meat. The clothes that the Inca wore were different according to their rank and ethnic group. They wore tunics and sandals of different colors. The Inca spoke over thirty different languages, but the most popular was Quechua. Most of the Inca didn’t get education except for the nobles. Also, only nobles, military groups, messengers, and crop transporters were allowed to travel. It was illegal for commoners to travel on the highways. When Inca people got married, they took a trial to ensure that the couple would stay together forever. They did this because it was a law that after being married you have to stay together with that person. Only noblemen were allowed to have more than one wife. After a couple gave birth, their child is given a name and they have a celebration for the newborn children. Once the child reaches manhood, they receive another name and have another celebration. Those are some of the things that happen in the daily life of an
This primary source tells the reader a great deal about the Incas. The Incas were extremely wealthy. Most of the document tells the reader about the wealth and riches of the Incas, describing their wealth in depth. Jobs in the Incas’ society included many lavish occupations. “[M]any silversmiths who did nothing but work rich pieces of gold or fair vessels of silver; large garrisons were stationed there, and a steward who was in charge of them all” (Pedro). The Incas were organized and intelligent. Large armies were set up to protect their villages, and they had plenty of silver and gold to experiment with and create new beautiful objects. They used their systems to create a fair,
The Inca civilization started around 1200A.D. and was found in the Andes mountains in what is now Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile.
Huayna Capac made sure that there was no such question over who had unreserved control nor allow his future heir to be afflicted with opposition to his legitimacy. Like all Incan Emperors, after first coming into power, each went on an expedition around his kingdom and its peripheries, in its entirety, to understand exactly where his boundaries are. After his excursion, he continued the expansion that his father began, and did so through a 5 step c...
The Inca Empire Janos Gyarmati’s Paria la Viexa and an expanding empire: Provincial centers in the political economy of the Inca Empire proved that the Inca’s built an empire unlike any other. From 1440 to 1532 A.D., the Inca Empire dominated the Americas. Known as “the fastest growing and largest territorial empire”(Gyarmati 37) of its time, the Inca Empire left a mark with their complex, perpetual and innovative economic, road, and settlement system. The Inca’s were advanced for their time, however, they lacked a system that would guarantee the survival of their kin. In order to strive, for the long-term, the Inca’s created provincial centers that would ensure their growth and economy for the generations to come.
The Inca quickly became a successful empire, a relative ethnic minority which controlled a diverse region of peoples. Conquered groups were allowed to maintain local chiefs, cultures, religion and language, bound together only through payments and work for the Inca. The mita (forced labor) system facilitated the lives of common laborers and recruited soldiers while vast tracts of roadways allowed for trade between the high and lowlands. The Inca accumulated great wealth, thus significant artistic and architectural achievements were made with textiles, metal working, and the practice of fitting stones together for building without the use of mortar. Many of these walls survive today. Although the Aymara attem...
...c used a slash and burn style of farming and they relocated once the nutrients of the land were used up. The Incas were much more advanced. Labor specialization was common, especially in the large densely populated areas like Cuzco. The Incas made roads, had irrigation channels, fortresses, and mines. They used crop rotation and terracing and other advanced agricultural methods.
The Inca government was one of the most efficient and complex of ancient history, Spanish conquistadors could do nothing but stand in awe while contemplating the complexity in their society. Mostly because Spaniards found many tangible resemblances between Spain's monarchy and the structural hierarchy in which the “antiquated” Incan Empire revolted around. The Incas consolidated a strong Empire based on coercion and rewards over conquered tribes that served a centralized power in Tahuantinsuyo. They were maintained in check through appointed representatives and tax collectors who were empowered to carry out punishment for crimes,
The Incas art was not just for aesthetic purposes, it was often used in day to day life. They used ceramics to create bowls and dishes, the royalty would only drink out of gold or silver cups, and they would often make bags out of textile. Since at the time they did not have a potter's wheel to assist in the making of ceramics everything was made by hand. The type of pottery they made would often be used to store maize and decorated with abstract plants and geometric designs. The metalwork that the Incas made was mainly for decor or jewelry, they said that gold was the sweat of the sun and silver was the tears of the moon. The rich and royal would only drink out of gold or silver cups and often their shoes had silver
The Aztec Empire stood for many years but never expanded much, only conquering small neighboring civilizations. The Aztec Empire was founded in the 6th century and didn’t fall until 1525. The Inca Civilization was a bit different. The Inca Civilization conquered as many lands that it could but quickly fell after just 100 years. In this essay I will be comparing the government, economics, and culture in the Aztec Civilizationand the Inca Empire.
The city is divided in the middle, Cuzco North and Cuzco South and within those regions is split into two sectors also named “Suyus.”(Aveni, 138). The city is the heart of the Inca Empire and represents the “Four Quarters of the Universe.” (Aveni, 138). There were four main roads that left Cuzco, one from each corner, those roads served at dividing lines among the Suyus. Northeast Suyus is Chinchaysuyu, Southeast is Antisuyu and southwest is Collasuyu and northwest is named Cuntisuyu (Aveni,
The Inca Empire, the massive nation that extended 2,500 miles along the western coast of South America and had a population of over 7 million at its peak. It included all of what is now Ecuador and Peru and most of Chile. Known as “The Children of the Sun”, they excelled at craftsmanship, weaving, and culture (“Children of the Sun”). A very religious people, they worshiped the Sun as their supreme god and held religious festivals monthly to appease these gods. Although they did not value it aside from its beautiful appearance, the Inca Empire was home to millions of pounds of solid gold and silver. The Inca had no use for it except to use it to craft decorations and statues. In fact, an Inca citizen valued cloth more than they valued gold or silver. Their collapse would be brought about because of the Spanish invasion, a brutal civil war that weakened the empire, and deadly disease brought over from Europe.
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
Before the Europeans even thought about finding a way to China and accidentally found the America, a group of Indians lived in South America. These Indians were called the Incans. Incans ruled the West side of South America. The empire ran through parts of many present day countries: Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. The Incan Empire was a great civilization that thrived for many years and paved the way for modern civilation.
Although covered in dense bush, it had many agricultural terraces that were sufficient enough to feed the population. Due to water from the natural springs as well as the agricultural terraces, it had the ability to be self-contained. Machu Picchu was created by the Inca culture for the purpose of religious observance. In order to build this city, the Incans used stone tools, bronze tools, and chisels. The materials they used were mud, clay, adobe, and granite blocks.
The Inca people had a complicated communication system. The Inca number and writing system was quipu, a system using cotton and wool string that was tied and knotted together. The quipu writing and number system helped people form other writing systems and it was part of the Inca culture. The spoken language of the Inca people was quechua. Quechua became the most spoken Native American language, and still is today. The language of the Inca people helped them communicate with others and is a major part of their culture. The Inca listened to ethnic and cultural mixed music. They played wind and percussion instruments. The Inca made instruments that we still use today. The culture in America today is similar to the Inca culture