The Inca was a tribe that had lived in South Eastern Coast of South America in what is now Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Bolivia, Argentina, and northern Chile, also known as the Andes Mountains. The Inca also settled in Ingapirca. The Inca capitol, Cuzco, was founded in 1200. The Incan empire became the largest empire in America. The Inca tribe was built in war and conquest. As they conquered many areas their population rose to over 9 million people.
The housing of the Inca tribe was unique. Most of the Inca houses were built with cane walls and a roof. However, in the highlands, the houses were stone set in mud with a thatched roof. In walled courtyards there were usually several houses grouped together. The nobles lived in palaces made of fine stone.
The Inca did not use money for trade. Instead they made very nice cloth, pottery, items of precious stone, and metalwork in silver, gold, and bronze. They also used wool and cotton to weave textiles. The pottery they made had geometric designs in black, brown, red, white, and yellow. To please the sun god, they also made temple ornaments and wonderful jewelry.
The Inca hunted, fished, and farmed for food. Most of the farmers were commoners. They ate guinea pig, llama, alpaca, and cuy. They used llamas for carrying goods over long distances. Most of the animals provided wool for clothing and meat to eat and trade. They also ate vegetables and many different fish. They farmed on mountainous lands with terraces, or broad platforms. Some of the crops they grew were cocoa, maize, peanuts, walnuts, berries, peppers, chili peppers, basil, capuli cherries, tomatoes, highland papayas, squashes, cotton, corn, potatoes, a root crop called oco, and a grain called quinoa. The Inca bui...
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...le were allowed to participate in government as long as they did not resist. Those who did resist were dealt with very harshly. People had to work in the farms of the ruling family members. The men had to work on construction projects such as bridges, roads, canals, toil in mines, or serving in the army.
The Inca spoke a language called Quechua, eventually it became the language of the entire empire. The Inca also developed a way to keep records called quipus.
The Inca became a very vast and rich empire. However, Francisco Pizarro eventually came to the land of the Inca and conquered it. He had his army of 180 men and they took over the Inca army. It was easy because many men in the Inca army died during the first wars between these two armies. The Inca Empire was very unique and interesting. The Spanish conquest was the reason that the Inca Empire declined.
Their religion also emphasized ancestor worship. At its basis,Incan religious beliefs were intimately connected with nature and included the belief that Inca rulers were direct descendants of the sun god, Inti.”The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century. One of the Inca civilization's most famous surviving archaeological sites is Machu Picchu, which was built as a retreat for an Incan emperor”. The Incas called their empire Tawantinsuyu, the “Land of the Four Corners,” and its official language was Quechua.The city proper had a population of around 40,000 with another 200,000 in the surrounding area at the time of the Spanish conquest. Cuzco was also an important component in the propaganda of Inca rule. It was encouraged to be venerated by Inca subjects as a sacred
Both the Aztec and Incan civilizations used trade, tribute, redistribution of goods, and agriculture to balance out their economy. However, the Aztecs had a more mixed organization, the use of more than one functions, used trade markets, and had a merchant class, unlike the opposing Incan economy. The Aztecs were more engaged with trade than the Incans, shown with the trade markets at Tlatelolco. Tlatelolco was a trade market controlled by the merchant class, or Pochteca and the development of currency was put in place using beans and or gold dust. On the other hand, the Incans did not have trade markets due to their trade being more informal, along with no merchant class or currency. To help specifically long distance trade, advanced road systems were put in place as way stations. Both civilizations used tribute and was an important aspect to the economic organization, but the Aztecs collected goods and the Incans collected labor, mita. ...
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 were a tribe that relied on corn a lot. Well, it wasn’t necessarily corn, it was actually a thing called maize. Maize is a corn like substance that they use for many things like tortillas that they could use to make other things with and put them with the tortillas. Some of this includes tomatoes, beans, squash, deer and other things. While the Aztecs relied on maize for many things, the Incas did not use at much corn as the Aztecs did. Instead their main diet was the food that there was when they traveled. The Incas had a very large spread of land that they traveled on. Instead of staying in one place the incas would get all the food from one place then they would go to another place and get all the food from there. After that they would go back to the original spot that they had been because all the food had grown
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.
Due to their scarce natural resources in their region the Incan people created provincial centers. Besides the lack of resources there was also no assigned task that lead to an increase in the Empire’s efficiency. The rise of both urbanism and trade inhabited because of the scarcity of resources in the Inca Empire. The Inca provincial centers became “sites of craft production and the concentration and distribution of goods.”(Gyarmati) The Inca Empire expanded with their impressive economic institution and forever changed the way people did business with not only each other but with other Empires around their area. Money dominates the everyday life of the average person, it makes the world go round. Discovering that the use of trade was used by the Incas warmed my cold business linked
It was a complex society located in the Andes Mountains of South America. The center of the Incan Empire, and it’s capital was Cuzco. They were attacked by neighboring Chancas, they all fled but one of the emperor’s sons, Yupanqui, led an army to against the Chancas. They defeated them and the victory made his people the strongest group in the area. The Incas had several ways of bringing groups of people into their empire. If they did not accept their terms, the other alternative was war. The Emperor of the Incan Empire lived in splendor. Everything in the empire belonged to the emperor. The wonders: fine gardens, golden statues, and jars made of gold and silver studded with emeralds amazed the Spanish when they came to Cuzco. In the 1500s, Francisco Pizarro, led a conquest, seeking riches, to the Incan Empire. Francisco Pizarro invaded the Inca Empire. With them, they brought European diseases and it spread throughout the Incan empire. The Incan Empire was already being weakened by two ruling brothers. Pizzaro conquered the Incas and gained wealth and brought riches as well.
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...
The Incas also used copper and some bronze for weapons and tools. They also had a communication system with knots on strings.
The Ancient Maya civilization had an advanced trade system made up of short, medium and long trade routes and a big market for a wide range of goods and materials. Modern researchers have used a variety of methods to understand the Maya economy, including evidence from excavations, illustrations on pottery, scientific “fingerprinting” of materials such as obsidian and examination of historical documents. The Maya didn't use "money" in today’s mind set; there was no global accepted form of currency which could be used anywhere in the Maya region. Even valuable items, such as cacao seeds, salt, obsidian, or gold usually varied in value from one region or city-state to another, often increasing in value the farther away these items were from their source. There were two kinds of goods shown globally by the Maya: prestige items and subsistence items. Prestige items were things like jade, gold, copper, highly decorated pottery, ritual items, and any other less-practical i...
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.
The Incas were a group in South America around Peru that created their vast empire that grew in the early 15th century. The incas consisted of about 9-13 million people in an empire that spanned 3,000 miles on the west coast of South America. Incorporated ideas from many different cultures into one truly unique way of life. The Incas had a very sophisticated and effective bureaucracy.
The population of the Empire was very diverse and large, containing millions of people. The Incan people called their state Tawantinsuyu. It consisted of four divisions with the capital, Cuzco, located in middle. The people did not have written language, making the early Spanish as the only source of The Incan Empire. However, according to the Incan people, the Empire did not start its growth until the capital was almost destroyed by the revolting Chanca people in the fifteenth century. The son of the emperor, Inca Yupanqui, was able to stop the revolt. While in power, he had a goal to bring civilization to all of the Andean people. Along with his successors, they made the Incan Empire begin to quickly grow. Alliances, intimidation, and conquest gave the power needed to expand the Empire. Conquered areas were not made to be tributaries for the Incas, but actually became part of the Empire. More than 14,000 miles of road would be used for transport by the Empire, so moving large groups of people was not hard. The newly conquered people were split up and relocated, making the conquered people less of a threat to the empire. The roads contained administrative centers and warehouses that not only allowed the Empire to transport people, but also created storage for goods throughout the Empire. Food and clothing that was stored allowed the army to constantly move while always having supplies. The Incan Empire was
...art of the Incan culture. Mining was required in all provinces. The Incans did not value metal as much as fine cloth. Shortly after the fall of Chimu, metalworkers were sent to Cuzco. Copper, steel, and gold were all obtained from the mines. Copper and Bronze were used for farming tools and Gold and Silver were used for decorations.
...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.