The Incas had a very long history. The Incas popped up in the 12th Century in the High Andes region. The first Inca ruler was named Pachacuti Yupanqui, he founded the famous Inca monument Macchu Picchu. In 1471-1493 the city of Pachacamac was took over by the Incas. After Pachacamac got tooken over Pachacuti Yupanqui doubled the size of the Inca empire. Yupanqui fought the Chancas and defeated them to make the Inca capital Cuzco. In 1470 after Yupanqui defeated the Chancas the Incas conquered the Chimu Civilization. The capital of Spanish Peru is Lima. In the Inca tribe they had over 100 ethnic groups. In 1510 sadly the Incas abandoned the settlement of Macchu Picchu. The Incas had its greatest extent in 1530. The big battle of was fought …show more content…
In the beginning of the Inca Empire most of the people died of smallpox. The emperors that Pizzaro and the Spanish killed were named Topac and Amuru. Pizzaro just watched them die the Spanish did the real work, and all of this stuff happened in 1572. The Inca Empire officially fell when Francisco and the Spanish took over.
The Inca achievements are a lot of things we have today. The accomplishments were making flutes, drums, callenders, pottery, and cloth. The Incas callender was popular but not as popular as the Mayans. The Incas were also known for Inferigating Imperial Policies with ethnic diversity which was way ahead of their time.One fun fact was that th Incas invented freeze-dry foods.
The Incas geography was very great in size. The Incas flourished part of South America in 1425-1532. The Incas capital was named Cuzco, South America. The geography was largely mountainous and mostly populated in the West Coast of South America. Macchu Picchu was one of the most important landmarks in the Inca history, it was located in the High Andes. For some reason the Incas gave up the settlement of Macchu Picchu. The climate zone for the Incas was labeled in Tierra Fria. When Huayna Capac was leader of the Incas he built fortresses, temples, and
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In 1100 Manco Capac started to be leader for the Incas. After he served as leader a guy named Pachacuti Yupanqui served as leader until 1450 CE. He only served for 1 year then got executed by Francisco Pizzaro and the Spanish Conquistadors. The Inca government was Monarchy. The Incas called their empire Tawantinsayo. When the Incas went to war they mostly used hand-to-hand combat but if they didn’t they used axes, clubs, lances, and parras. You could only serve in the war if you were 25-50.
The downfall of the Incas was very harsh. In the beginning of the Inca Empire most of the people died of smallpox. The emperors that Pizzaro and the Spanish killed were named Topac and Amuru. Pizzaro just watched them die the Spanish did the real work, and all of this stuff happened in 1572. The Inca Empire officially fell when Francisco and the Spanish took over.
The Inca achievements are a lot of things we have today. The accomplishments were making flutes, drums, callenders, pottery, and cloth. The Incas callender was popular but not as popular as the Mayans. The Incas were also known for Inferigating Imperial Policies with ethnic diversity which was way ahead of their time.One fun fact was that th Incas invented freeze-dry
The Aztec’s and Incas seemed like a very well devoted tribe to one another. Even though they only lived a few thousand miles away from each other and didn’t know about each other they were well known. The artifacts left behind shows that they were very advanced, and the food they ate they knew how to take care of their bodies. The Aztec and Inca’s also knew how to prepare for war also. These two tribes are some of the best warriors known to man.
The Inca civilization started around 1200A.D. and was found in the Andes mountains in what is now Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, and Chile.
The Aztecs and Incas served an important role in the primal Native American civilizations. They were similar and different with the treatment of women, the economy, and intellectual achievements. Economically, both civilizations used trade, tribute, and agriculture to build their economy. However, the Aztecs had a more mixed economy, used trade more frequently than the Incas, and had a merchant class whereas the Incan civilization had more governmental control. Intellectually, both civilizations achieved in fields such as architecture, and art; however, the Incan empire had a wider range of achievements, disregarding their lack of writing. Throughout both civilizations, women had a tough life and were underappreciated but comparing the two, Incan women had it better off due to parallel descent.
The Aztecs and Incas were the two dominant new world societies which greeted and eventually succumbed to the Spanish conquistadors in the early 16th century. Since then, they have occupied some of the most curious comers of the western imagination. Purveyors of scholarly and popular culture render them in various disparate ways: as victims of European colonialism, incompetent militarists, heroic forbears, barbarians, or authentic practitioners of native utopias and cults. The Aztecs and Incas were two Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations that roamed the land of Latin America throughout 14th and 15th century. Aztec empire ruled much of what is now Mexico from 1428 till 1521, when the empire was conquered by Spaniards. Aztecs controlled a region stretching from the Valley of Mexico in central Mexico east to the Gulf of Mexico and south to Guatemala. Aztecs were great engineers and developed a multifarious social political and religious system with Tenochtitlan as their capital city. Inca Empire stretched it boundaries from Colombia to Chile and reached west to east from the Atacama to Amazonian rain forest. Incas lack the concepts of written language however they had an incredible system of roads. Casco as their capital Inca Empire only lasted a century before it was conquered by Spaniards in early 16th century. The two Mesoamerican civilizations burgeoned independently of each other with no cultural or religious swap. Aztecs and Incan societies were predominantly agricultural. Religions of both societies were shamanistic which were heavily influenced by preceding cultures. These complex polytheistic religions regardless of their chronological exclusivity have significant features in common.
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.
Like the Athenians and Spartans of ancient Greece, the Inca and the Aztec bear resemblance to the two other ancient cultures. The Athenians and Incas were both more interested in developing their Arts as well as their military, but both the Spartans and the Aztecs were highly interested more so in warfare than religion. Although the Aztec and Inca never had to face each other, it is interesting to compare them because of their dominant positions of extremely large and powerful tribes. I am going to compare and contrast religion and the social system along with their system of government, which can be put together.
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,
In conclusion you can see how different the Inca and Aztec civilizations were, from government, to economy, and cultural to even human sacrificing. They were very
The Incas are much more advanced. Labor specialization was common, especially in the large densely populated areas like Cuzco. The Incas made roads, irrigation channels, fortresses, and mines. They used crop rotation, terracing and other advanced agricultural methods. These civilizations had retainers and all had slaves, usually slaves from other villages that they had fought in wars.
Cuzco, the Inca capital is now part of Peru. Location’s and Economies always play a part of each and every
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
This reading was an excellent collection of articles, because it presented seven different views of the Incan empire. It does a good job of trying to idealize the Incas, justify their conquest by the Spanish, and label their government using modern terms. In retrospect, it is easy for us to look back at history and study it, but it is always a necessity to learn from what we study. If there is one thing to learn from the European conquest of the America's, it is that destroying a race of beings and their culture is an injustice to the conquered, and the conquerors.
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.
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 Mayas developed a system of taxes, where the farmers were allowed to pay with food. The Aztecs eventually controlled most of Mexico, about 30 million people. The Incas domesticated llamas and alpacas and used them for transporting goods in mountainous terrain. These civilizations produced these results over a thousand years ago. Their accomplishments illustrate how advanced they were.