American Pageant Chapter 1 Outline

. Capital at Cuzco, which had as many as three hundred thousand people in the late fifteenth century

Eleven million captives were actually captured and began their journey from Africa. Most of the captured slaves went to Brazil and the Caribbean’s.

The capital city of the Inca and the most popular was Cusco. It was a popular city and held the most people of all the cities. It was luscious and green. The Aztec capital and most popular was Tenochtitlan. It had a lot of Temples, Palaces and and other buildings. There was poles that people would jump off of for ceremonies. Finally the Maya had a lot of capitals but the most popular one is Tikal. It had altars and lots of other buildings. The alters were taken

The title "Inca Empire" was given by the Spanish to a Quechuan-speaking Native American population that established a vast empire in the Andes Mountains of South America shortly before its conquest by Europeans. The ancestral roots of this empire began in the Cuzco valley of highland Peru around 1100 AD. The empire was relatively small until the imperialistic rule of emperor Pachacuti around 1438. Pachacuti began a systematic conquest of the surrounding cultures, eventually engulfing over a hundred different Indian nations within a 30-year period. This conquest gave rise to an empire that, at its zenith in the early 16th century; consisted of an estimated 10 million subjects living

The Incas ruled a large portion of South America for just shy of one hundred years, from 1438 until 1532. There are two main reasons why the Incas were successful. Although they were successful rulers, they were not prepared for the European invaders.

Cusco, Peru, one of the oldest cities in the Americas is 3,400 meters above sea level on the Huatanay river among several mountain ranges. It has a population of 435,114, attracting approximately 2 million visitors per year. This intriguing Peruvian city is an Incan Empire gateway into the world-renowned ancient city of Machu Picchu, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in the southern Sierra region. You can trek the Inca Trail to get there.

The second theory was that it was the city of the Inca Wiraqocha, eighth king of Cusco. The Incas new the true personality of the King: that he was cruel and favoured the rich. When he died, his youngest son ordered his city, Machu Picchu, to be abandoned. His people agreed and the city was gradually covered in vegetation, not to be seen until the 1900’s.

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

The Incas Empire began around 1200 and lasted until the Spanish arrival in 1532. They were the largest civilization in pre-Columbia with a territory of 380,000 square miles and a population of about 7 million. Around 1400 the empire began its expansion stretching along the western coast of

From 1438 to 1535, the Incan Empire made a historical impact. The Incan Empire was located in South America on the western coast in the present countries of Peru. (Tagle.) Three-fourths of the Empire was located within present day Peru. Since the rule of the Empire did descend through familial ties, the ruling emperor was chosen on account by his family dynasty. (Hutagalung.) The empire of the Incas merits importance and note due to its contributing factors of roads, agriculture, and medicine.

The Andes Mountains run through Peru. lots of people have tried to climb the Andes Mountains some fails some not. Machu Picchu is one of the most important Incan Empires. Machu

The Inca first appeared in the Andes and what is today southeastern Peru in the 12th century and they gradually built a massive kingdom out of stone. Inca called their empire Tahuantinsuyu, or land of the four quarters. It stretched 2,500 miles from Quito, Ecuador, to beyond Santiago, Chile. The Inca controlled about 10 million people, speaking 100 different languages. At the time it was the largest empire on Earth.

Peru was the home of one of the Inca civilization in the 1500's. The Incas had to adapt to the geography and build traces to farm on the traces would hold water and hold silt and or fertilizer. The Inca were also part of the Andes mountains. Farming was difficult for the Inca's but with terrace's it helped them grow more crops. The Inca also had a very hilly geography so, they had a lot of hills.

Machu Picchu is a physical symbol of the culture that created it. It is located in the Andes Mountains in Peru, South America, high above the Urubamba River Canyon Cloud Forest. The Incan capital, Cuzco, the closest major city, is forty three miles northwest of this landmark. Machu Picchu is five square miles and eighteen square kilometers in size. This ancient civilization has an altitude of eight thousand feet and is surrounded by towering green mountains. Although covered in dense bush, it had many agricultural terraces that were sufficient enough to feed the population. Due to water from the natural springs as well as the agricultural terraces, it had the ability to be self-contained. Machu Picchu was created by the Inca culture for

In 1911, The Inca city of Machu Picchu was re-discovered by Hiram Bingham. Machu Picchu’s discovery generated a big impact in history referring to the Inca Empire and also called Inca civilization. Its discovery revealed their religion, agriculture, and urban society in the early 16th century, approximately built 500 years ago. It is located in Cuzco region, Peru. The buildings, walls, terraces, and ramps are the most stupendous creations that men have found in the mountains, and this makes the city blend naturally into the rock escarpments. Also, to build the citadel, they used the stone dry technique by using heavy granite stone blocks, and putting them tightly to fit together, not even a narrow space between