Achievements Of The Ancient Incas

lands and sometimes on building projects or in mining.” (World of the Inca). Thus the Inca expected

The Inca Empire, the massive nation that extended 2,500 miles along the western coast of South America and had a population of over 7 million at its peak. It included all of what is now Ecuador and Peru and most of Chile. Known as “The Children of the Sun”, they excelled at craftsmanship, weaving, and culture (“Children of the Sun”). A very religious people, they worshiped the Sun as their supreme god and held religious festivals monthly to appease these gods. Although they did not value it aside from its beautiful appearance, the Inca Empire was home to millions of pounds of solid gold and silver. The Inca had no use for it except to use it to craft decorations and statues. In fact, an Inca citizen valued cloth more than they valued gold

They honored their gods, and did rituals to honor them. The Aztecs for example honored Huitzilopochtli, or the sun god through human sacrifices. Usually prisoners, were sacrificed to please the gods, so they could receive their blessings in return. This could have ranged from good health to receiving good weather. The Incas did human sacrifices too, and they would sacrifice noble children or the virgins of the sun. In a video, ¨Virgins of the Sun¨, the author teaches us that the children and parents viewed being sacrificed as a privilege. The Incas believed the children would sacrifice their lives to later be guardians of their society. Both of these empires took their faith seriously, and respected all their deities. The only reasoning behind these practices is because they were motivated by religion. Both Empires didn't want to disappoint their deities, but instead wanted to praise them to get something in

To start off with, the Mayans existed earlier in history than the Incas. The Mayans existed from 1000 BC to AD 1697 and no one is quite certain what wiped out their ancient civilization. Mayans are still around today but not as many as there once was. The Incas existed from AD 1438 to around 1534 and were wiped out by a combination of smallpox and being conquered by the Spanish.

Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui also invented the Capacocha, which was carried out in the following way: The provinces of Collasuyo, Chinchaysuyo, Antisuyo, and Cuntisuyo would bring to this city, from each town and lineage of people, one or two small boys or girls, of ten years old. They would also bring clothes and livestock, as well as sheep [made] of gold, silver, and mullu. These were kept in Cuzco for the reasons that will be told. After all this was assembled, the Inca would sit in the plaza of Haucaypata, which is the large plaza of Cuzco. There the children and other sacrifices walked around the statues of the Creator, Sun, Thunder, and Moon that were already in the plaza for this purpose. They made two turns around them, and after finishing, the Inca summoned the provincial priests and had the offerings divided into four parts for the four suyos: Collasuyo, Chinchaysuyo, Antisuyo, and Cuntisuyo, which are the four regions into which this land is divided. And he would tell them, “Each of you take your share of these offerings and sacrifices, take it to your principal huaca, and sacrifice them there.

most of the time the sacrifice was an animal like a sheep or cow or something like a cask of wine but sometimes a human would be sacrificed. the sacrifice had to be perfect and have no defects. The sacrifice was a major event. Washing and dressing in clean garments was important. Generally they wore a white or purple tunic during the sacrifice. For the sacrifice there was a strange ritual. The sacrifice would be brought to the temple by a procession led by a maiden with a jug of holy water held at the side. The sacrifice was purified by water and then was placed on the altar for the priest to sacrifice. sometimes temples were built only to sacrifice.

The Incan Indians started as a small tribe in South America in pre- Columbian times. According to Lin Donn, author on the website, Inca Empire for Kids Quick History, “The Inca empire started as a small tribe who lived in the village of Cuzco, high in the Andes Mountains of South America. One day, another tribe tried to conquer them. Thanks to

In Document E by Friar Berna, it states “...he is given all the finest luxuries from the nobles’ store houses, including foods, clothes, teachers, women, and instruction.” (Doc E) My next piece of evidence is from Doc D by Diego Duran states “..raised their hearts to the sun” possibly referring to the god, Huitzilopochtli or to all 128 gods. (Doc D) My last piece of evidence is from Document A by the Aztec Rulers, where it presents “‘flower wars’ in order to provide and ongoing supply of ‘flowers’ (captured sacrifice victims).’” (Doc A)This explains that capturing them would mean sacrificing them to the gods. This evidence supports emphasizing human sacrifice because it explains the various ways they pleased the god and especially, the sun god,

The Aztecs had human beings for sacrificial rituals. Aztec society was based on agriculture, and influenced by religion that encircled life of the Aztec empire. The Aztecs were polytheistic and worshipped gods that represented natural forces. These sacrifices were vital to their agricultural economy. All of the sacrifices were at a giant stone pyramids topped by temples where sacrifices were provided the gods. Human sacrifice played an important role to the indigenous tribes in the central Mexico. However, the Aztecs brought human sacrifice to excessive deaths that had never been practiced before. The Mexica Indians and other indigenous tribes believed it was necessary to constantly gratify the gods through human sacrifice. They performed this ritual spilling the blood of human beings onto the ground. The priests believed it was a way paying tribute to the gods for the weather, and good crops. If the blood flowed, then the sun would rise each morning. This would allow the crops would grow, and the gods would provide perfect weather for the

Deities were honored with sacrifices in the form of agricultural produce and animals. Religious beliefs had a strong moral dimension. Incas conceived of sin as a violation of the established social or natural order; believed in a life beyond death; and punishments for sins. They observed rituals of confession and penance by which priests absolved individuals of their sins. In the

The first reason for emphasizing human sacrifice is because they ripped out their hearts and raised them to the sun and threw them into a shrine before the gods. Two thousand three hundred men were killed and and there blood bathed the temple and stairway. Every Time a priest cut out heart and rolled their

Incas believed in many Gods such as Viracocha. Viracocha is one of the main Gods in the Inca religion. Viracocha is the creator of everything. He created everything such as the sun, moon, stars and the earth before he created living things such as humans and animals. When Viracocha created human he gave them some rules which they disobeyed. He then became angry with the people and cursed them all. Some were swallowed by the sea while the others were swallowed by the earth. He then brought a flood named Uñu Pachacuti that washed away all the humans.

The Aztecs sacrificed a human on every 18 of their festivities (holidays). They also sacrificed a certain breed of dogs as well. And a list of others such are butterflies, hummingbirds, and self-sacrifice.

The Mayans practicing of human sacrificing, just as with the Incas and the Aztecs, was done for the gods. They believed that the blood was the nutrient of their gods. Thus, in order for their gods to bless them and be pleased with them they had to make sacrifices.

Human sacrifices was a common practice among the Tainos religious beliefs. This act was done in hope of ridding themselves of evil spirits or any signs of impurities.