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    The Incan empire expanded do to its fast knowledge, fascination, religion and determination. The Inca’s were a great people, they came up with ideas for their time was pretty advanced and also different, Incan tribes conquered different places around them and flourished due to them having a tolerance for the native people and also using some of their ideas as influence to help build up their empire, create sculptures, holy lands, and stories for why things happen. Incas believe that the sun god Initi

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    For my research paper, I decided to study the Incan Empire. My research will show the Incan culture and how they lived, built their cities, and farmed. I wanted to encompass as much of the Incan Empire as I could, to better highlight what made them such a great Empire at their peak, and how they declined. By studying their growth and decline, we can learn why past civilizations decline and how we can possibly prevent this for current civilizations. About the Incans The Incans had a massive territory

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    Aztec and Inca Empires The Aztec empire was established in the 14th century in the present-day location of Mexico City. Previous civilizations had already occupied the region which allowed the Aztecs to form a foundation off of their accomplishments. The Aztecs built the capital of Tenochtitlan on an island in Lake Texcoco. This would benefit them in the future. At the time the Inca grew out of the Kingdom of Cusco in the Andes Mountains of Peru in South America. Just like the Aztec empire it too was

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    The Rise, Fall and Religion of the Inca Empire 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

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    The Inca Empire was a complex society with an estimated population of 10 million people. They had vast cities, exquisite temples, an advanced government and a detailed tax system. Even though they were not as advanced in technology as other empires they still had their own technologies. Some of their technologies were invented by others, but they helped perfect them. They were one of the greatest empires of their time, but how technologically advanced were the Incas? The Incas did not have many

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    The Inca empire was a well-managed empire that function under close family members that continuously expanded over time. The Inca empire started off as a small empire from Titicaca that migrated north to the valley of Cuzco. Amongst the many groups located in Cuzco the Incas started gaining new members due to their superior abilities to politically negotiate with their neighbors, conquest of many local groups, representing, electing themselves into the government of others through votes of existing

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    for Inca leaders..Machu Picchu stands 2,430 m above sea-level, in a tropical mountain forest, in an extraordinarily beautiful environment. It was probably the most awesome creation of the Inca Empire because of its height; its giant walls and teracces which seems as if they have been cut naturally in the escarpments . Above Amazon basin located at this height at Peru's Andes Machu Picchu is full of animals and plants you can not see in other parts of the planet. Historians believe Inca people

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    I am going to read about three ancient native empires. They are called the Inca, Maya, and the Aztecs. They were all ancient and well known empires. The Inca and Aztecs Empires were both conquered by Spanish conquistadores. The Maya Empire was abandoned. No one knows why. First I shall talk to you about the Inca’s, then, the Maya’s, and finally the Aztecs. The Inca became a tribe in 1200 B.C., in the Cuzco area of southwestern Peru. The other names for the Inca’s were/are Inka, Tahuantinsuyu, or

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    Michelle Fortner Mr. Beggs History of the Americas 9 (1) 1 September 2015 The Inca Create a Mountain Empire Questions For each term or name, write a sentence explaining its significance: Pachacuti: An ambitious and powerful ruler who took the throne in 1438; the Inca seized all of Peru and later moved into adjacent lands under his leadership. Ayllu: Prolonged family group; assumed tasks too large for a single family (i.e., constructing irrigation canals, cutting agricultural terraces into sheer hillsides);

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    Inca Warfare and weapons – Warfare was common to the Inca Empire, and the empire trained and armed scores of warriors. Inca war strategy was generally to split their army into three groups of warriors, each group specializing in a different type of weapon. Inca warriors were trained extensively, starting at the age of sixteen. Every Inca man was required to serve as a warrior. Training lasted for three to four years, and each man was trained in the use of all weapons. at the end of the training

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