The Incas And The Inca Empire

1. Before Francisco Pizarro began the Spanish conquest in 1532, the Incan empire dominated the Andes Mountain region. An emperor who demanded strict obedience ruled the land. All business was run by the state, which could draft citizens for its projects. The Inca, terracing the landscape and irrigating the crops, farmed the mountainsides. The Inca were brilliant engineers, whose roadways included bridges. The city of Machu Picchu is an example of their skill with tools like the plumb bob and wooden roller, which they used for in heavy construction. Hundreds of years after their civilization was subdued by the Spanish, the descendants of the once-dominate Incas make up about 50 percent of Peru’s population.

The most significant physical geographical factor that contributed to the development of the ancient South American society of the Incas was the Andes Mountains. The Inca Empire had villages and cities throughout the Andes Mountains. Some of these settlements were as low as sea level and their capital, Cusco, was at an altitude of 11,200 feet. The Andes are considered some of the longest and highest mountain ranges. In fact it’s tallest peak, Mount Aconcaqua, in Argentina, tops out at 22,841 feet (Zimmermann, 2013). Despite the fact that people were traversing mountains the people flourished creating trails, aqueducts and agricultural practices that still exist today.

At the time the Inca grew out of the Kingdom of Cusco in the Andes Mountains of Peru in South America. Just like the Aztec empire it too was influenced by previous civilizations that had existed in the past. Both the Aztec and Incan empires adopted the previous accomplishments of older civilizations. They both also invaded neighboring territories to conquer and expand their land.

Inca Empire, which contributed languages, as well as promoted irrigated farms, and buildings and roads composed of stones

Ancient Society benefited from their skills as builders and artists. In Source four, “ They constructed thousands of miles of roads to link all parts of their vast empire.” This shows that South America, Inca Empire makes fine resistant buildings. The Incas are most popular for their architecture and constructed finely done buildings. Also, in the Western part of South America it was difficult to farm there. The Incas had plenty of solutions.

The Aztec and Inca were two diverse civilizations that prospered in Mesoamerica and South America. Both of these ancient civilizations had unique ways of governing their people and living their lives. The Aztecs and Incans both had many similar features, such as their large capitals at the center of their empires, their focus on agriculture, and their large peasant classes which allowed these empires to thrive in the Americas. They also had their share of differences including the level of control over their empire, the Incan government’s control of trade, and the Aztecs’ use of slavery.

The title "Inca Empire" was given by the Spanish to a Quechuan-speaking Native American population that established a vast empire in the Andes Mountains of South America shortly before its conquest by Europeans. The ancestral roots of this empire began in the Cuzco valley of highland Peru around 1100 AD. The empire was relatively small until the imperialistic rule of emperor Pachacuti around 1438. Pachacuti began a systematic conquest of the surrounding cultures, eventually engulfing over a hundred different Indian nations within a 30-year period. This conquest gave rise to an empire that, at its zenith in the early 16th century; consisted of an estimated 10 million subjects living

Creatively, the Incas achieved many things. Their inventions was their most popular thing. In fact,

The Inca were once one of the most advanced societies and largest empires in the early 16th century Americas. They had an expansive empire that spread throughout South America, including what is present day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a successful monarchical government and large military system, the Incas also had complex irrigation systems and technologies that were ahead of their time. The Spanish first arrived in 1527 while the Incas were still a thriving society led by Huayna Capac who had kept the country unified. However, by the early 1530s, there was a schism in the Inca Empire between the two sons of Huayna Capac, Huáscar and Atahualpa, who were fighting for kingship, dividing the empire in two.

The Incan society believed in ranks, topmost, including the royal family, the descendant kin of past rulers, the non-royal ethnic Incas, and the Incas by Privilege. Despite the elites prominence, peasant families who lived in towns and villages: farmers, herders, fishers and artisans, made up about 95-98 percent of the population. The Incas called their empire Tawatinsuyu, the “Land of the Four corners”, and its official language was Quechua”. By the time of the Spanish conquest, much of the Inca Empire was made up of numerous non-Inca groups.

The Inca civilization was very smart and advanced because they built a network of roads and stations connecting the Inca towns. They also paid taxes with potatoes or in gold. They were a rich tribe because they had silver and gold. They made jewelry, carvings, and plates and spoons out of

An American singer, Madonna, once stated, “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes me a b*, okay” This quote is about the ambition of people, they do not care what will affect their ambition to have what they want. In the play “The Tragedy of Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, Macbeth and his wife are an ambitious duo who use many evil methods towards the powerful king. The quote Madonna related to them is “If that makes me a bitch, okay” because Macbeth felt okay about being bad, which is murdering people at the end of the act, leading to the revenge of Macduff.

In the Inca state there was an occurrence of local merging between A.D. 900 and 1200. The first wave of expansion occurred in AD 1200. The early expansion of the Inca State mostly stayed in the Cusco area where there was small-scale polity, consisting of fighting in allying with neighbors. Local expansion may have occurred on the early 1400’s under Viracocha Inca. The earliest Inca territorial expansion in the early 1400s incorporated neighboring Chancas. This took off under the rule of Pachacuti, in Cuzco. Pachacuti was the creator of the Inca Empire and civilization. Topa Inca, went on conquests with his brother and added the greatest amount of territory. Under his father Pachacuti, he went on a conquest in Peru, and after succeeding Pachacuti

Inca city located on a mountain about 2,500 meters above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region

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