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| Why are the Incas fascinating to people today? |
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| Their civilizations were very advanced. |
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| How does Iperial Inca seem like the United States of its day? |
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| Again, they were very advanced. They had a lot of different organizations, in textiles, government, education, and even religion--all were very structured. |
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| America isn't as overtly tyrranical. We all can have more of a different opinion on things than the Incas who all worked more like communism, for the common good--El Inca. There everyone was very much the same. |
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-Valley of Cuzco in 1100
-By 1525 they included parts of Argentina, Chile, Bolivia, Perú, and Ecuador.
-In 1532, they were conquered by Francisco Pizzarro in the name of Imperial Spain |
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-Supreme gods and creator was Viracocha
-they served other semi-gods that represented parts of nature, generally, like the sun, the moon, the land, the sea, the corn, the rain...
-agriculture was sacred |
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-Imperial Inca - Tahuantisuyu (Tierra de las Cuatro Partes)
-state of totalitarity
-El Inca was their leader
-ruled with religious leaders and viewed as semi-gods
-his reign was divided into four regions among his relatives |
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| Their social organization: |
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-Ayllu: a group of familes that share land and labor
-they were obligated to work together to reap the best of the benifits the ayllu had to offer and to work towards a common goal--El Inca |
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-chasquiz: young people ran through all those crazy long roads to deliver messages
-they transported quipus, or information ..... |
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-irrigated the land: canales hydráulicos
-made spaces between the mountains cultivatable: andenes
-cochas: artificial lagoons used to enrich the land and irrigate
-waru waru: canals that surrounded the fields
-la carne de llama (venado), las aves, las ranas, and los camarones
-potatoes?? |
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-clothes with symbols of bright colors
-hairbands that said your ethnical identity
-mean had short hair
-women had long hair, parted in the middle (cut short when in mourning or when dishonored)
-both sexes wore jewlery: bracelets, necklaces, rings, broches)
-painted their faces
-women tied rope around their legs, separately, to make their legs look good and muscly |
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