INCA EMPIRE

INCA

EMPIRE

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SOCIAL CLASSES IN THE INCA EMPIRE

1. INCA EMPIRE

Cácap Inca (“The powerful Inca”) and Sapac Inca (“the Inca, the only one”), were the names used to call the sovereing of the Inca empire.

• At the top was the emperor SAPA INCA
• descendant of the sun.
• His family military, chiefs, priest and curacas.
• The capital, Cuzco, became a magnificent city, full of temples and palaces, (although as part of Spanish buildings).

2. ROADS, BRIDGES AND TRIBUTES

• To pass rivers and streams, they armed quickly hanging bridges, made of ropes, which allowed the passage of : ARMY, CHASQUIS AND TRIBUTES
• The chasquis were the messenger of the Inca who were trained to walk long distances.
• CHASQUI:
• INCA TRAIL- CAPAC ÑAN (EL CAMINO DEL INCA)
• The path that joined the four states-regions (suyos)
• -Commerce route
• - Means of transportation

3. THE INCA PACHACUTEC

• First t expansion of the empire, from Titicaca to Junín.
• He also organized the chasquis, real messengers, and also he trained them to travel to quickly run long distances, with a system of postas, to carry news of the Inca.
• He divided the empire into four regions states or suyos. That is to say, the empire of the four parts of the world, the four cardinal points. Tahuantisuyo.

• The word Tahuantisuyo is composed by two Quechua words: tawa that means “four” and suyo that means “states”

4. TUPAC YUPANQUI

• expanded the borders towards the south until arriving at the river Biobio in Chile.
• He subdued the Chachapoya towns (Peru), Huancabamba (Peru), Palta (Loja, Ecuador) and Cañari (Cañar, Ecuador) around 1450.
• Tupac Yupanqui improved the collection of taxes and appointed new visiting governors (tucuy-ricuy).

5.HUAYNA CÁPAC

• He was the XI Inca.
• This immense empire had expanded along the coast of South of Peru, Chile (Tacna), Argentina (Tucumán) and Bolivia (Sucre) Gulf of Guayaquil region In Azuay, he ordered the construction of Ingapirca's palace on the fortress of Hatun Cañar, that belonged to the defeated Cañaris civilization (1475).In 1487, there was a confrontation with the Confederation Quito in Atuntaqui.
• The bosses of the defeated army of Quito gathered in assembly, and they named Paccha (daughter of the dead chief ) as a Shyri (queen).
• Back in Quito, many members of his court and he himself became seriously ill of smallpox. He died in 1525.

6. ORGANIZATION OF THE EMPIRE

• was divided into four “SUYOS” or parts, each one was governed by a great prince. There were “AYLLUS” (communities) that had a chief or curaca.
• The Inca empire used the work of the communities so that the rulers accumulated wealth.
• The Incas used the “MITMAJ”. It was a forced relocation system of entire communities and/or families from one place to another place of the empire.

7. INCA CULTURE

8. ORGANIZATION OF SOCIETY

not all traits or characteristics of life indigenous can be repeated and there are aspects such as authoritarianism that should not be imitated. There's a lot learn from the Incas and the aborigines in general. For example, good use of the environment, promotion of community work, the habit of doing things in common, a MINGA, the concern to find means of communication. In short, you have to understand a philosophy of life, which is Good Living or Sumak Kausay.

• The Incas respected the religious forms of the conquered people, but they also demanded the worship of their God “SUN”.
• They built temples and monasteries for women "VIRGINS OF THE SUN", who were dedicated to the worship of the Gods.
• The Incas imposed the language "QUECHUA OR QUICHUA".
• They developed an immense network of roads throughout the empire with a quick service of messengers or CHASQUIS.

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INCA EMPIRE