Inca Kola

I.Room 3 - The Golden Incas A.Culture 1.Artifact 1: a.Family-Weaving (Bridgeman Art Library, 1) b.In Incan families, you were forbidden to marry to close relatives. When getting married, you exchange sandals with your spouse. The emperor could have as many wives and children as possible. (Infobase Learning - Login, 1) The boys looked after the animals and helped in the fields. At the same time, girls took care of the children, fetched water, cooked, made clothing, and learned to weave.…

When the Spanish first arrived in the New World they encountered two powerful empires: The Aztec and the Inca. However, the Inca and the Aztecs used different methods to control their empires, especially in the areas of economics and state religions. These methods, although different in structure, did contain some similarities. This demonstrates that empires can be equally powerful, but use different methods of organizing economic and religious systems. The Aztec economic system can be split…

The Inca empire Inca Empire was a very strong presence in new world, the South Americas. They had amazing architecture, which was so good that it could hold a 40 foot stone wall together with out mortar. Their empire had over six million people in it, who were very law abiding people, and their strong government was also able to govern the people over vast distances, with many natural obstacles. The Inca diet mainly consisted of stew, maize. The Inca built a vast empire. Supported by taxes,…

The Inca Empire, located in Peru, was the last standing empire in South America. The Incas were South American Indians also known as natives to the land. At the time their capital was called Cuzco, which lasted for three hundred years. Cuzco is also a modern city in Peru. After the rule of their fourth emperor, many tribes settled in the Andes Mountains. Each tribe was individually conquered, requiring them to adapt to the Inca ways of life. After the Indian tribes converted, they combined…

Inca civilization The Inca civilization arrived in Peru between 1400 and 1533 CE. Their empire extended across western South America from Quito in the north to Santiago in the south, making it the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time. The Incas conquered people and exploited landscapes such as plains, mountains, deserts, and tropical jungle. Out of the ten million people living in the Inca Empire at the time of the Spanish conquest in 1533, the…

Machu Picchu would be a great travel destination because of its historical interest. Machu Picchu is one of the world's great archaelogical wonders and one of the most beautiful mountainous areas. Also, is a great historical site because of the history on how it was found. Furthermore, Machu Picchu would be a great historical travel destination because it is one of the world's great archaeological wonders. The story,"The Stones of Machu Picchu", says,"Despite the mysteries…

the iron ore and carbon together in a very hot fire. The Inca didn't have steel because they could not build a long enough lasting fire to heat the iron due to their wet climate. This affected their development because they didn't have strong weapons to take over other civilizations, therefore their civilization did not grow. The Incas only had bronze weapons and stone knives to protect them, the Spanish had strong and sharp swords. The Incas fell to invasion and the Spanish invaded and…

mountaintop environment and are crisscrossed by terraces made of stone and set on a steep ridge. Machu Picchu demonstrates great architecture, artistic values, and use of land inside of the 79 acres it is located inside of. Machu Picchu is the last Inca stronghold and is also one of the most important historical sites in Latin America. The valleys surrounding Machu Picchu had been cultivated for more than a thousand years. Machu Picchu also provides a secure habitat for the endangered speckled…

professor. Bingham arrived in Peru with a small team of explorers hoping to find Vilcabamba, the last Inca stronghold to fall to the Spanish. His team started their expedition in Cuzsco, where they heard about some ruins located on a nearby mountain. The locals called the mountain Mcu Picchu, whihc means “old peak”.…

The Inca Empire adorns the entitlement of the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and was highly prosperous through the fourteenth and fifteenth century AD in ancient Peru. The vast empire skilfully expanded in adverse terrain absent of fundamental methods including currency, iron working and writing systems. Extension across western South America from Quito in the north to Santiago in the south was centered by the city Cuzco in the Peruvian Andes, and at its peak, the Incas consisted of…