INCA CULTURE

MEMBERS• Albino Tasayco Adriel

• Cusipuma Napa Dayana

• Martínez Lévano Víctor

• Ramos Manrique Juan Diego

• Rojas Tasayco Fabiola

Key Words:• Build a city• Incas• Farming• Most important city• Constructions made of Stone• Ate quinoa, amaranth, corn, potatoes and potato flour.• Built temples, palaces and forts• They raised llamas, alpacas and vicunas• The spanish Conquered them

THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE• LEGEND

OF LAKE TITICACA: Manco Capac, and his wife, Mama Ocllo.

• THE AYAR BROTHERS: Ayar Cachi, Ayar Uchu, Ayar Auca, and Ayar Manco.

LOCATION• Located in The

Andes of South America.•West cost of

South America in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Chile and Argentina.

POLITICAL STRUCTURE• Tawantinsuyo

tawa = “four” suyo = “region”

• Basics of politics – Reciprocal obligation – Social groups – Local lords

TAWANTINSUYO

Chinchaysuyo

Contisuyo

Collasuyo

Antisuyo

RELIGION•Practiced several

polytheistic religions.•Viracocha was

the creator of the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.

METALSBronze, copper, gold, silver. No techniques for working iron or steel.

TEXTILEMany colors and designs

ARCHITECTURE• Inca architecture is the most impressive in South America.• The materials used are stone and rocks.

SCULPTURE• In sculpture, the Incas did

many elaborate works. They were mostly made of stone, but they also made it in metals such as gold and silver, as well as in wood.

CONTRIBUTIONS

CALENDAR• The Inca calendar is the time

measurement system used by the Incas in Cuzco. It was determined from the observation of the Sun and the Moon. The 360-day year was divided into 12 moons of 30 days each.

CLOCK• The system of time

measurement used by the Incas, in Cuzco. It was determined from the observation of the Sun and the Moon.

RECORD KEEPING: THE QUIPU

Inca used Quipu for calculating and remember numbers.

WORK SYSTEMS• Mita: It was a system of work in favor of the Imperial State of

Tahuantinsuyo, were people to work in turn in construction of roads, bridges, forts, administrative centers, temples and more.• Minka: Community work that was carried out in works in favor of the

ayllu and the Sun (Inti). • Ayni: System of work of family reciprocity between the members of

the ayllu, destined to agricultural works and to the constructions of houses. Mutual help.

ECONOMIC STRUCTURE

• No money, no shops or market• Sapa Inca owned

everything and gave the people what they needed to live• Economy based on

agriculture and herding (foodstuffs, clothes).

INCASThere are no exact birth and death dates for these leaders, except for the deaths of the last five. instead, these are the estimated dates of when they ruled.

MANCO CAPAC AND MAMA OCLLO

The most famous Incas and those who started the Inca culture.

SINCHI ROCA

Was the second ruler of the Curacazgo of Cuzco. Legitimate son of Manco Capac and Mama Ocllo.

LLOQUE YUPANQUI

• Was the third ruler of the Curacazgo of Cuzco. He did not achieve any territorial expansion in his government. Was the son of Sinchi Roca.

PACHACUTEC• Son of Wiracocha (Huiracocha

or Viracocha) was the ninth ruler of the Inca state and who converted it from a simple curacazgo into a great empire: the Tahuantinsuyo. • Although not designed as a

successor by Father Huiracocha Inca, he led a military defense.

HUASCAR• Huáscar was the twelfth Inca of

Tahuantinsuyo, one of the ten blood sons of Huayna Capac and one of the third with access to the throne. • Many claimed the throne, including

his brother Atahualpa, who might end up taking it by force in 1532, arresting him and then ending his life and being captive Francisco Pizarro.

ATAHUALPA• Was the thirteenth Inca or

sovereign of the Inca empire. His father, Huayna Capac, died without leaving a successor named. • This resulted in the bloody Inca civil

war for the succession between Atahualpa and his brother Huáscar.• Atahualpa managed to defeat

Huáscar in 1532 near Cuzco. It was in his government where the Spaniards conquered Peru, Atahualpa was captured.

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