Inca Road Exhibit

The Great Inca Road Exhibit itself explains how vast and various the landscape of the Incan Empire was and the indigenous people that lived there. The exhibition hall consists of sections introducing the history of the Andes before the Incan Empire emerged. There were also pictures showing the Indigenous Andean people. While at the exhibit visitors could feel as if they are walking on The Qhapaq Ñan (The Great Inca Road). The hall is shaped like maize. There are lots of pictures taken at religious festivals and pictures of people in traditional clothes, landscape, animals and so on. Therefore we feel that we are exploring the wide region of Andes like the ancestors of indigenous people.

As mentioned above, this exhibition covers the culture

The first argument is that the Inca was a great developed Empire in the world history. It stretched its territory over diverse regions including mountains, rainforests, grassland and desert and also accessed to ocean and the environments enriched the kingdom. Additionally many skilled works enhanced the reputation of the Inca Empire, for example the Qhapaq Ñan was built by human without using iron tools or big animals. Sophisticated artifacts invented during the Inca Empire has also been alive and people have reproduce it with preserving their tradition. The second argument is the Andes people still has lived with the Inca Empire. 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