“Leadership is influence”. (John C. Maxwell) Huayna Capac believed in leading by intentionally enforcing the Incan traditions and way of life to anyone who encountered them.
Huayna was the son of Topa Inca Yupanqui (1471-1493), an Incan King who led a massive expansion of the Incan Empire, spreading it towards the Tahuantinsuyu or land of four quarters. The newly conquered domain was so colossal that it dispersed deep into the Amazon forests. Because his father was an emperor, Capac grew up living an excessively lavish lifestyle knowing that one day he would be successor of the throne. To aide him in his future, Topa Inca Yupanqui made certain that his son was well versed; he received the zenithal education possible. His course load covered: learning the Quipu, a knotted string form of communication; use of the abacus ,a counting frame; religion; history; and four years of training in Quechua. Although Huayna Capac was quite aware that one day the throne would be his, his father’s sudden death in 1493 forced the young prince to quickly adapt to being ruler over the powerful, vast, Incan Empire. At the very start of his rule he did not want anyone to abuse the fact that he was an inexperienced juvenile nor overlook his ordained power, so he took charge on asseverating his supremacy.
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...
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...lf and of knowing who they were and to feel like a whole but then he ruined his very own kingdom also by not sticking to his own teachings and acclaiming himself a higher power then the deity’s that they worshipped.
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Among the several civilizations in the Americas, the Inca was one of a kind. Starting out in the highlands of the Andes mountain range, the empire spread across modern day Ecuador, Peru, Chile, Argentina, and Bolivia for a total length of 2600 miles. At its peek the Inca Empire was the largest nation on Earth and remains the largest native state to have existed in the western hemisphere. The obtaining of such large area of land was no small feat nor was the government that managed it. Understanding how such an empire rose, ruled, and fell could be useful in understanding other ancient civilizations and could be applied in current governments.
The Incas were one of the biggest grown civilizations in America. Within 100 years they had built a dominant empire, which stretched the entire length of the Andes Mountains.The Incas were a group who settled in the Cuzco Valley between 1000 and 1400 C.E. Being a peasant in this group came with many jobs, tasks, and hard work. The development of Inca daily life functioned well because of the peasants hard work, the class system, and family life style.
Malpass, Michael Andrew. Daily Life in the Inca Empire. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1996. 709. Print.
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People have spoken in Quechua and Aymara and have preserved and cherished their culture even after it is blended with Catholic culture. They are deeply rooted in their life and we can understand how strong power of influence the Inca has to date. The third argument is that human have an ability to create a large and great empire and no other country or culture erases it completely. Spaniards tried to erase a memory of the Inca Empire or decline indigenous community by sending mestizas forced to separate from their Indian mothers to monastery and forbid to use the Inca symbol among people, but the Andes culture and the memory of the Inca Empire still has remained as I wrote above thus it is clear that human is able to create an Empire which can be rooted in minds of people of the Empire
Historical Analysis Essay The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was a vital part in the collapse of the empire and in the colonization of the Andean people. The Andean people were perceived to be uncivilized savages by the Spaniards and needing to be changed. The Spaniards believed the Andean people and the land itself were for them to shape with their own culture and make it a piece of their history. The conquest and colonization of the Inca empire, from a Spaniard’s perspective, was seen as a benefit to the uncivilized Andean people but from an Andean perspective the invasion into their land was unwanted and resisted in different ways.