Inca Incas (in Quechua inka, 'king' or 'prince'), a generic name of the rulers of Cuzco, with equivalence to the sovereign, who established a vast empire in the Andes in the fifteenth century, shortly before the conquest of the New World by the English. The name is also applied by extension to all subjects of the Inca or Incan Empire. Inca is, archaeologically, the name of a culture and a pre-Hispanic period. Geographic Position
A mid-thirteenth century AD appears in Peruvian history the leader Manco Capac, who established the center of his empire in Cuzco and gradually began to extend its power alone.
At the time of Tupac Yupanqui reached the border near the Maule river, now Chilean territory.
For 1523, the borders of the empire stretched from Popayan, COLOMBIA present, to Maule.
Inca kings divided the territory into four regions. Political Organization
Orejones The Council had legislative and judicial powers. What happened to a child INCA elected in accordance with the council.
The high priest was considered the second authority of the empire and replaced INCA in his absence.
Each couple had its Tupu or parcel of land that could increase its size according to the number of children and sometimes their own merit Social Organization
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The core was formed by the ayllu, a group of individuals gathered in totemic clans. Each ayllu was divided as follows: a Chunca (10 families) commanding a CURACA. A Pachaco (10 Chunca) governed by a Pachaco-CAMAYU. A huaranca (10 Pachaco) governed by a huaranca-CAMAYU. The family was monogamous and indissoluble marriage. The INCA, the chief of the empire was a powerful character and his image was depicted as God's.
social classes included:
• The nobility: she belonged to the families of INCA and leading officials.
• The priests had 3 categories: diviners, and sacrificers imnotizadores.
• The Town: comprising farmers, herders and craftsmen.
• Servants: the integrated tribes enslaved for having rebelled against the authority of INCA.
The family was taken by the State. 18 to 20 the girls and 24 to 25 years were married by choice manceos government. The father's authority was powerful. The woman was almost a slave and her children their main asset. The family lived in relative isolation, but the law directed that shook parties relationships. Religion
worshiped a supreme God and numerous minor deities. The Incas claimed descent from the sun and therefore offered him a special service. Were totemic and revered the thunder, lightning, the planet Venus and the Earth (Pachamama). They believed in the afterlife and embalmed the bodies and graves concerbaban in luxury. Worshiped (by many priests soothsayers and magicians) to the ancestors and all animated objects that could impress.
Beautiful women were called virgins of the sun and was in CUZCO an entire neighborhood dedicated to them. Arts
Architecture: the Incas were highlighted by the grandeur and majesty of their temples and palaces. Carved stones were used and mortars.
Ceramics highlighted the making of vases, vessels and funerary urns.
paint: decorating walls of temples and palaces, and ceramic objects.
Music: used the flute, using a scale of 5 notes.
Metalworking: Metal objects are, without doubt, the most striking achievement of many held all the Incas. Goldsmith tradition, in ancient Peruvian coast, occupied a very important chapter in her trousseau. Worked copper, bronze, silver and gold being hammered and depth of the most commonly used blades. CUSTOMS
The brothers, who were husband and wife, a phenomenon that would be based on the custom of Inca rulers to marry their sisters, their departure. Its task was to find the site from which to conquer the world. Economy
lands did not belong to an individual but to the community. The product of the harvest was distributed by the government who gave the majority to their benefit and that of the priests awarded the surplus to the people.
Intensive agricultural development.
Fruits that were harvested were: banana, pineapple and guava.
Rivers offered them large amounts of gold, metal, tin, copper and zinc.
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