The Inca Society

Before the great colonist arrived to the Americas, there were already people living on the land. Although they did not speak the same language or believe in the same gods, the people native to the lands were still very advanced. They had built great cities, most of the time had some sort of government, social class, religion and a shared a common language throughout the empire. It might not have been the same language as the colonists. Simply because there were differences between them it did not make one better than the other, but that’s exactly what happened. When the colonist arrived they deemed the native people as savages and uncivilized, all because there were differences between them. There were many societies that lived in the Americas, …show more content…
The Inca society which was located on a high plateau of the Andes mountains and by 1200 have a kingdom in the valley of Cuzco. The Inca also have found a way to have an organized rule, they decided to divide the conquered lands into smaller city-states, which made it easier for them to govern. They establish an official language known as Quechua and have also established a road network that stretched to 14,000 miles long, which was used to carry messages to different places. The Inca were also polytheistic, but they had fewer gods than the Aztec. Although, just like the Egyptian they believed that their ruler had descended from the sun god, which was one of the most important gods along with the creator god. The Inca were very sophisticated people, they used different ways to conquer lands. Instead of marching in and slashing and burning everything, they used diplomacy and military force to conquer. This lead to the Cuzco empire reaching its height in 1500. Which does not last very long, after Huayna Capac dies the kingdom is divided between his two sons in 1520. The tension rises and a civil war takes place just before the Spanish arrive. Although there were some differences between the Native American, Maya, Aztec, and Inca societies, there were many similarities as well. Religion being something that was very similar throughout the societies as well of some sort of government. Another thing that happened on multiple occasions, was the fact the many of the societies united with other tribes or groups in the area to defend each other. Although many of the societies were nowhere near each other they exhibited many of the same qualities, practices and just mirrored each other very