Inca civilization

About 105 years ago, an expedition occurred making these explorers discover the ancient city of Machu Picchu. This attracted archaeologists, and historians. The reason is because of the wonders and history of the ancient civilization of the Inca’s. Mostly today it is a tourist attraction to people who are curious about the wonders of the world or just to take good pictures. The significances of the ancient city of Machu Picchu is its discovery, history, and it's universal values of the world…

ancient civilizations around the world. They existed in antiquity in this area of numerous cultures with varying degrees of development which, from many centuries before the beginning of our era, appeared, overlapping each other, until becoming almost all one. This confluence of cultures would become one of the most important civilizations of all time. The Inca Empire. The Inca Empire of Tahuantinsuyo, was one of the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The beginning of the Inca…

when Hiram Bingham pushed aside a tangle undergrowth and just stared. According to the text, “Bingham was not the first white man to examine the Inca civilization. After its takeover by the Spanish conqueror Francisco Pizarro in the 1530s, men like Pedro Cieza de Leon, a soldier, and Father Bernabe cobo, a Jesuit missionary, recorded their impressions of Inca rituals, social structure, and engineering.” This city was a secret stronghold built by Manco II after he left the Spanish conquest in…

The Inca and The Aztecs The Inca and The Aztec empires were two very important tribes from the past. They have many differences, between culture, food, etc. They were very different people; living far away from each other. I'm going to discuss a few of their differences, from culture, traditions, and customs. To housing units, food source, and beliefs. Culture Culture is the basic “ all of the above “ thing. It helps show what a tribe does, believes in, and acts. The differences between…

The Incas were one of the first groups in the Andes mountains, of South America. Over several thousand years, the people before the Incas learned how to grow crops in the high altitudes. The Incas and the people before the Incas created beautiful objects out of a silver, and gold, and they also constructed massive buildings out of stones. The Incas was the last greatest Andean civilizations. Cuzco Valley was were the Incas were homed. Cuzco Valley, situated at 10,000 ft above sea level, which…

Picchu is often believed to be the ruins of Vilcabamba, the last capital of the Inca civilization. By the time Mr. Bingham stumbled upon this historical treasure, people had been trying to find the location of Vilcabamba or Vitcos for 400 years! Vilcabamba was the secret hiding place of Manco II when he fled the Spanish Conquest in 1535. Machu Picchu is believed by many to be the ruins of Vitcos. Machu Picchu is…

efficient and prosperous state. A similar moral code of conduct can be seen in Book of Exodus: Moses Leads the Hebrews from Egypt. In this record, Moses is given the task by God to lead the Israelite population out of Egypt, from bondage. In leaving civilization and venturing out into the desert, there seems to be a need for moral codes of conduct, to keep the people on the virtuous path. Thus, the Lord God institutes the Ten Commandments through Moses, and institutes laws that govern the way in…

The Inca were a mesoamerican civilization located in current day Peru. They lasted from the 1400’s to about 1532. The Inca are very important to learn about because without them the continent of south america would have been very different today. There are many different artifacts on display in this exhibit. There is the totora reed boat, bone fishhooks, Incan gold sunface disks, a lampa, llanco, and a model of an Incan aqueduct. Totora reed boats were created by binding totora reeds…

visitors. Peru’s location allows the country to have great weather year round. It is a great place to go on for a vacation. Places like Cusco and Machu Picchu are just two of the many great achievements of the ancient Inca civilization but architecture isn’t the only thing that the Incas did. There culture was the basis of the family values that are present in Peru today. Peru is a country that is seen as a poverty country, mainly because some of the big cities like Lima have a higher…

ensued. The interaction between societies allowed the world to become more advanced and efficient. Importantly, interactions between two cultures, on opposite parts of the world, has immensely impacted the world today. At a time when the Aztecs and Incas were becoming major regional powers, Europe began their maritime voyages, in search of new trade routes and a way to travel to India safer and faster. Because of this aspiration, The Columbian Exchange, which refers to a period in time of…