There were several ancient civilizations that built their cultures around their geography. The Incas were among one of those ancient civilizations. They had amazing ingenuity to make use of their environment. The Incas built agriculture terraces and they had a complex irrigation system. And some crops that we use today. The physical environment of the Incas affected and shaped their civilization.
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
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One can encounter every environmental extreme imaginable, from the intensely vertical terrain of the Andes, soaring up to altitudes of 5,000 meters (16,404 ft.) above sea level, to dry, low-lying lands along the western coast of South America. The climate zones are equally diverse, with some areas that are constantly hot and humid to others with subfreezing temperatures year round. Also within its boundaries are some of the driest places on earth- Chile’s Atacama Desert- to some of the most lush- the Amazonian rain forest to the east of the Andes- with rainy season lasting 11 months of the year. (Suarez and George 3)
Within this extreme environmental variation, however, the geography of the Inca territory can be divided into three categories: the coast (costa), the mountainous region (sierra), and the eastern tropical region (selva) (Suarez and George 3). In these extreme variations of the physical climates and geography, the Incas knew how to adapt. The coastal zone of the Inca Empire, which includes present day Chile and Ecuador, was one of the longest deserts in South America and even the world. In the book titled, Lost City of The Incas, Hiram Bingham writes, “In fact, one of the greatest deserts in the world is the two-thousand-mile coastal strip extending from Chile to Ecuador.” This coastal zone was made up of a lot of desert. “The coastal zone stretches more than 2,000 kilometers (1,2343 mi.) from Ecuador to Chile, where dry, desert
Inca city located on a mountain about 2,500 meters above sea level. It is located in the Cusco Region
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
The text states, “Andean farmers also battled poor soil, bad frosts, and frequent droughts.” The Incas developed breeds of crops.This shows that the Andean farmers had ways that offered simple solutions to help protect their harvest. The Anasazi,resided in the Four Corners of the region. The text states, “Yet in the Andes people called the Incas built a great civilization and an empire that they named Tahuantinsuyu, “the Four Quarters of
The Incan society believed in ranks, topmost, including the royal family, the descendant kin of past rulers, the non-royal ethnic Incas, and the Incas by Privilege. Despite the elites prominence, peasant families who lived in towns and villages: farmers, herders, fishers and artisans, made up about 95-98 percent of the population. The Incas called their empire Tawatinsuyu, the “Land of the Four corners”, and its official language was Quechua”. By the time of the Spanish conquest, much of the Inca Empire was made up of numerous non-Inca groups.
Inca Empire, which contributed languages, as well as promoted irrigated farms, and buildings and roads composed of stones
The Aztec and Inca were two diverse civilizations that prospered in Mesoamerica and South America. Both of these ancient civilizations had unique ways of governing their people and living their lives. The Aztecs and Incans both had many similar features, such as their large capitals at the center of their empires, their focus on agriculture, and their large peasant classes which allowed these empires to thrive in the Americas. They also had their share of differences including the level of control over their empire, the Incan government’s control of trade, and the Aztecs’ use of slavery.
They were very well known for their astronomy however. They created many accurate based on their astronomy discoveries, but this one only one major discovery. The Incans had many innovations though. They invented and redesigned many important things such as the aqueducts, a unified language, instruments like the flute, drums and more, freeze dried foods, gold and silver statues and jewelry, a system of communication called runners, specialized jobs, a calendar and a basic time, and terraces. Terraces are a form of farming that the Inca invented.
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 Inca was the biggest empire in pre- Columbian America and they came from the Andes region, which is now Peru. The Inca empire existed in the 12th century and were overtaken in the 1500’s. They spoke Quechua dialect and their military was based on their emperors. The counties that made up the Incan Empire was Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, Ecuador, and South America.
Creatively, the Incas achieved many things. Their inventions was their most popular thing. In fact,
(The Inca) Was a fierce, harsh , tribe that had no crime in the Inca empire , because the punishments were abrupt and gruel. Inca Empire developed in a outstretch strip that reached north to south along the western side of South America. Sapa Inca was the head of the government in Inca. He owned everything and everyone.
The Incas however had produced other tuber and root crops, like the oca,anu, achira,papa liza, luki and maca. They had displayed an austere practically in every aspect of their lives, they also showed little hint of religious favor, no penchant for any type of meditation, no tendency toward either the sentimental or the superstitious. The Incas also showed the precise and very angular style that would be used to construct buildings, different from the more
The Inca history tell use how they controlled over most of South America. The Inca empire started to expand with emperor Viracocha Inca. First Incas were in Andes region. They would take to territory to influence South America. There territory expand from Northern Ecuador to central Chile. There rival was the Chances. The Chances attacked Circa in 1438 Viracocha Inca fled Circa at the attack. Viracocha so Cusi Inca Yupanqui stayed and fought the Chances in Circa.
The Inca were once one of the most advanced societies and largest empires in the early 16th century Americas. They had an expansive empire that spread throughout South America, including what is present day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and northern Chile. With a successful monarchical government and large military system, the Incas also had complex irrigation systems and technologies that were ahead of their time. The Spanish first arrived in 1527 while the Incas were still a thriving society led by Huayna Capac who had kept the country unified. However, by the early 1530s, there was a schism in the Inca Empire between the two sons of Huayna Capac, Huáscar and Atahualpa, who were fighting for kingship, dividing the empire in two.
In the Inca state there was an occurrence of local merging between A.D. 900 and 1200. The first wave of expansion occurred in AD 1200. The early expansion of the Inca State mostly stayed in the Cusco area where there was small-scale polity, consisting of fighting in allying with neighbors. Local expansion may have occurred on the early 1400’s under Viracocha Inca. The earliest Inca territorial expansion in the early 1400s incorporated neighboring Chancas. This took off under the rule of Pachacuti, in Cuzco. Pachacuti was the creator of the Inca Empire and civilization. Topa Inca, went on conquests with his brother and added the greatest amount of territory. Under his father Pachacuti, he went on a conquest in Peru, and after succeeding Pachacuti