Quechua

of colonial Peru, Guaman Poma stands alone. His First New Chronicle and Good Government, a massive manuscript only recently rediscovered after nearly 300 years, is a unique work that walks the often thin line between text and graphic, Spanish and Quechua, and history and rhetoric. Guaman Poma’s goal in writing his First New Chronicle was twofold: to secure a future for Andean nobility, and a future for Andean customs. These purposes were at odds with each other. On the one hand, securing power for

Inca Empire was the largest civilization in the pre- Columbian America. Its great extention covered a large portion of the western South American countries such as Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and Colombia. Their official language was Quechua. Their empire lived short lasting 100 years. Social Structure. The Inca were ruled by a very strict social class that was divided in nobles and commoners. The nobles were the people who originally stablished in the city of cuzco They had an emperor

Michelle Fortner Mr. Beggs History of the Americas 9 (1) 1 September 2015 The Inca Create a Mountain Empire Questions For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance: Pachacuti: An ambitious and powerful ruler who took the throne in 1438; the Inca seized all of Peru and later moved into adjacent lands under his leadership. Ayllu: Prolonged family group; assumed tasks too large for a single family (i.e., constructing irrigation canals, cutting agricultural terraces into sheer hillsides);

commerce and architecture that allowed its survival and positioning as one of the great pre-Columbian cultures. The Incas had their own language to communicate, they spoke the Quechua language, which was the official language of the Empire. There are writings that are considered to be the first documents from the Quechua language,

there was a centralized religion between everyone. Since there was no written script the empire as a whole came to a conclusion that they needed a dialect that everyone could use. The primary dialect that was chosen throughout everyone was called “quechua” and knotted cords which were called “quipa” were used to keep track of historical and money records (Pringle, 2011). From having a set dialect to a hundred different spoken languages the Incan Empire soon flourished and starting growing and making

Jenny Melin INT 203 Dr. Stephen Haymes Indigenous Struggle for a Life with Dignity in the Ecuadorian Amazon In this paper I argue that lawsuit filed against ChevronTexaco for dumping 18 billion gallons of toxic wastewater, spilling roughly 17 millions gallons of crude oil, and leaving hazardous waste in hundreds of open pits dug out of the forest floor have affected more than the ecosystem of the Ecuadorian Amazon. ChevronTexaco has also completely threatened the Ecuadorian indigenous people’s

the four quarters. It stretched 2,500 miles from Quito, Ecuador, to beyond Santiago, Chile. The Inca controlled about 10 million people, speaking 100 different languages. At the time it was the largest empire on Earth. The Inca’s official language Quechua. The Incas believed that the god Viracocha created the Earth, Stars and all living things. They believed that he created the sun and moon by plucking them out of an island in Lake Titicaca. Inti was another important god to them. The largest religious

The Incas The Native American tribe I chose is the Incas. The Incan Empire lasted from 1438 to 1533. It was the largest empire of its time in pre-Columbian America. Their empire stretched for about 2,500 miles along the west coast of South America. Cusco was where the administrative, political, and military center was located. Cusco was located in modern-day Peru. It was located high in the Andes. The population in the Incan Empire was more than 10 million people. There is some debate about the

from its initial origin, throughout Cuzco of the south of Andes, mountains of South America. By 1500 AD Incas had the largest population in the Americas, but its expansion came to an end with the invasion of the Spaniards. Language Incas spoke was Quechua, and all newly conquered or assimilated regions were required to speak it. Incas incorporated

The Great Inca Road Exhibit itself explains how vast and various landscape the Inca Empire controlled over and the indigenous people lived and are living to date lively. The exhibition hall consists of a lot of section introducing from the history of Andes before emerging of the Inca Empire to the pictures of indigenous Andean people. Since the visitors need to take a long time to look the exhibition, they could feel as if they are walking on The Qhapaq Ñan (The Great Inca Road) and the shape of