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The Inca Create a Mountain Empire. Chapter 16 section 4. Key Terms. Pachacuti Ayllu Mita Quipu. Inca Beginning. Lived in high plateaus in the Andes Valley of Cuzco 1200’s Rulers were descended from the sun god Inti Bring prosperity and greatness - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Chapter 16 section 4
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PachacutiAylluMitaQuipu
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• Lived in high plateaus in the Andes
• Valley of Cuzco 1200’s• Rulers were descended
from the sun god Inti• Bring prosperity and
greatness• Men from one of eleven
families could serve• Believed to be
descendants of the sun god
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• 1438 Pachacuti took the throne
• Inca conquered al of Peru
• 1500 Inca empire stretched 2,500 miles on western coast of South America
• “Land of Four Quarters” 80 provinces 16 million people
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• Used diplomacy and conquest
• Before attacking offered an honorable surrender
• Keep customs and rulers in exchange for loyalty
• Many states gave up without resistance
• Once defeated Inca tried to gain loylaty
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• Extensive road system• Rulers divided their
territory• Quechau- official
language• Founded schools to
tech the Incan ways• Groups identified by
certain patterns of clothing
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• Built many cities in conquered areas
• Architecture was the same throughout the empire
• All roads led to the capitol
• Cuzco-stone homes, stones fit together without mortar
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Total control over economic and social life
Regulated production and distribution of goods
Inca allowed little private commerce
Allyu- communinty cooperation
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• Ayllu-extended family, undertook tasks not too big for one family– Irrigation canals– Cutting agricultural
terraces– Stored food to
distribute during hard times
• Families divided into groups of 10, 100, 1000, 10,000
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A chief led each group
Chain of command stretched all the way to Cuzco
Inca ruler and council of state held court
If a group resisted Inca control the were relocated
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• Main demand was for tribute (usually labor)
• Mita- was the labor tribute
• Have to work for the state a certain number of days
• Incan system more like socialism or modern welfare state
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Aged and disabled taken care of by the state
State fed peopleFreeze-dried
potatoes (chunos)Stored in warehouse
for food shortages
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14,000 mile road program
Paved to simple pathsBuilt guest houses
and shelters along the road
Chasquis- traveled the road as a postal service
Easy way to move troops
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Inca never developed a writing system
History and literature done through oral tradition
Quipa- series of knots used as an accounting system
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Position of knots and colors meant different thingsRes strings-
warriorsYellow strings-gold
Inca had two different calendars
Gods ruled the day and the time
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Worshipped fewer gods
Key nature spiritsMoonStars, thunder
Viracocha- the creator
Sun worship amounted to worshipping the king
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Temple of the sun , Cuzco most sacred
Decorated in goldGardens of plants
and animals made out of gold and silver
Walls of several buildings covered in gold
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Hiram Bingham in 1912 found Machu Picchu
Isolated and mysterious
Religious centerRetreat for rulers of
Pachacuti
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1500’s Huayan Cupac ruler
Inca’s at their peakReceived a gift in
EcuadorFilled with
butterflies and moths (bad omen)
Few weeks later died of small pox
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Empire split by his sons
Atahualpa received Ecuador
Huascar received the rest
Soon Atahulpa claimed the whole empire
Fought each otherTore empire apart