Inca

The Maya, Aztec, and the Inca have similarities and differences. The Maya and the Aztec might have something in common that the Inca don’t have or vise versa. The Maya lived in the modern day Yucatan Peninsula. The Maya time period lasted from 200 AD to 925 AD. The Aztec lived in the modern day Valley of Mexico. The Aztec time period lasted from 1200 AD to 1521 AD. The Inca lived in Cusco which is located in modern day Peru. The Inca time period lasted from 1200 AD to 1537 AD. The Aztec and the…

The ancient Inca Empire had to come to an end as Francisco Pizarro, a Spanish conquistador took the the last breath of of the Inca leader Huayna Capac. However, this beginning conquest created great wealth for Spain and brought new religion and new ideas to South America. The Amerindians were easily defeated and killed bywith the Spaniards’s iron swords and advanced technology. This destruction became is was athe start for a new government, new religion, and new culture. The Spanish took over…

Rituals - Birth, initiation, sacrifice, burial, worship, festivals -Vicky The arrival of a child was a welcome event in the Inca empire, both parents were required to perform rituals to ensure the safe delivery of the infant. Pregnant women were expected to continue working until the day they gave birth, which was done without assistance. The newborn was either placed in a cradle, carried by the mother while she worked or tied in a pack across her chest. The baby was named later during a…

Empire was a civilization along the coast of South America that conquered neighboring regions through their military strengths. While both the Aztecs and Incas had similar social hierarchies consisting of the elite, government officials, and commoners, the Aztecs had no structured form of government only paying tributes to officials compared to the Incas’ military ran bureaucracy. The Aztec Empire and the Incan Empire shared similar structures of their social class. Both empires had emperors…

Walking the Inca trails, I experienced the culture and life altering interactions with the local people. I noticed the complex network that exemplifies the advancements of the long lasting Inca Roads and its spiritual ideas. The roads linked communities together and extends 24,000 miles long. Along the walk, I came across enormous amounts of rocks on top of each other. These combinations of rocks are called Apacheta; it is where pilgrims traveling up and down the road have deposited rocks as…

Emily Ensslin Period 5 The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The empire began during the 12th century A.D. in a mountain range in South America called the Andes Mountains or modern day southeastern Peru. According to the Inca’s origin myth, they were created by the sun god, Inti, and his children. As time progressed, through their strong leaders and military, the Incas were able to conquer many surrounding empires. The empire had conquered and expanded along the coast…

The Incas were truly amazing. There was no other word for it. The empire that the Incas created was 2,500 miles long. The incas took ideas from others and expanded on them. Some of the ideas that they took came to be very important in society and well known today and helped them to flourish. You will see some of the artifacts later in the gallery room. One important part of the Incas was the culture. Culture was important to the Incas. Some of the artifacts in the Inca culture was the sun…

The Incas and the Egyptians were two very different groups of people but somehow they both ended up having many similar elements in their cultures. They had such similar elements that Victorian-era scholars concluded that the two cultures were certainly children of the Golden age parent, “Atlantis”. The Incas arose around the 12th century A.D. in the Andes region, but they were not conquered until 1572 by the Spanish. The Inca’s started truly expanding under the rule of their eighth emperor,…

Aboriginals, for example. Another would be the Inca civilization. They believed in reciprocity, where as the Europeans put emphasis on taking. Furthermore, Europeans put their faith in Christianity, where as other groups placed their faith in other religions. In addition, the European worldview was based on ethnocentrism. Differences in worldviews, especially religion, caused immediate unfriendliness between Europeans and other groups, such as the Inca. The Europeans wanted to convert…

were getting smaller and water becoming more scarce. The Incas were not going to starve, and therefore they started going to war and conquering smaller nations around them so they could exploit their resources. But expansion was not the same as imperialism. The Incas typically conquered, plundered and robbed from the land and people, and then went home. This was changed by the eighth lord of the Incas, Viracocha. Viracocha decided that the Incas would permanently stay and rule their conquered…