Essay On The Inca Empire

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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 geography and resources that the Inca had access to had major effects of the empire. The Incas
Typically he sent spies into regions he wanted and they returned with reports of military strength, wealth and political structure. Afterward, he would send messages to the leader of the area and explain what they would gain by joining his empire. Most accepted the rule of the Inca Most accepted the rule of the Inca. Refusal of the request of Incan rule resulted in a military conquest. Following conquest the local rulers were executed. The ruler 's children were then brought to Cusco to learn about Inca administration systems, then were allowed to return to rule their native lands. This allowed the Inca to indoctrinate them into the Inca nobility and assimilate the rulers into the Incan nobility, even at the various corners of the empire. This system of expansion allowed newly acquired territories to quickly be assimilated into the
They plundered its wealth and left the civilization in ruins. The civilization 's sophisticated road and communication system and governance were no small accomplishments. Diverse tribes, many occupying isolated territories in the most obscure of mountain hideaways, were amazing even by today 's standard. They were greedy for the wealth, which existed in fabulous proportion, not the culture. Yet, through the survival of the language and of a few residual traces of the culture, the civilization was not entirely destroyed. The great and relatively humane civilization of the Incas ' main legacy is inspirational, residing in the human ability to imagine that such a fabulously rich, well-ordered, and generally humane society once existed, high up in the Andean

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