Was The Inca Empire An Early Welfare State?
Was the Inca Empire an Early welfare state? How did the Inca government compare with that of
the Aztec?
The small group of Quechua-speaking people, known as the Inca grew to be the largest
imperial state along the entire spine in the Andes Mountains. A welfare system provides
assistance and help to their people normally taking care of their health and necessities. The
argument made by many historians of the Aztec Empire being an early “welfare state” is true due
to the care they gave to their people and conquered people regarding the amount of work needed,
the food provided if the people where in need of it, and their care for elderly and sick.
The way the government functioned properly with numerous amounts of workers …show more content…
These households had their own
small place for production of food which was usually for their own consumption, but apart from
this they also worked in “sun farms”, which were for the empire and supported temples and
religious institutions. These farms where to be worked on by the people in the Mit’a, and
possessed land in the upper part of their land and in the lower part so they could produce a high
variety of different foods.
1 McEwan, Gordon Francis. The Incas New Perspectives. Santa Barbara, Calif. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. 90
Shown in the image above is an Inca circular terrace which was used to increase the agricultural
yield3 in Moray, Peru constructed during 15-16th century CE. To maximize the production the
Incas transformed the land constructing various terraces, canals, and irrigation networks shown
in the image above and were not strangers to use fertilizer.
Workers in the sun farms where called mitagons4, they were assigned a certain number of days
they needed to work for the empire and when their time was up other people replaced them
allowing a continuous flow of work. The curacas determined who would provide labor for …show more content…
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-greatest-mystery-of-the-inca-empire-was-its-strange-1198541254.
16 Chepstow-Lusty, A. J. Chepstow-Lusty, and M.R Frogley. "Putting the Rise of the Inca Empire within a Climatic and
Land Management Context." Climate of the past 5, no. 5 (2009): 375-88. Accessed December 18, 2015. doi:376-
385.
17 Ibid.
18 "Aztec Government and Economy." Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library. Ed. Sonia G. Benson,
Sarah Hermsen, and Deborah J. Baker. Vol. 2: Almanac, Vol. 2. Detroit: UXL, 2005. 477-500. Student Resources in
Context. Web. 18 Dec. 2015.
. The trade specialist called calputin , sold in Tenochtitlan’s busy markets with cacao beans, cloth
and salt as mediums of exchange.
In contrast, the road system in the Inca Empire was used by government officials to deliver
messages or carry out orders from the government. It was one of the largest road systems of all
ancient world empires with over 14,000 miles (22,526 kilometers) of road crossing through
remote part of mountains down to the sea. Along this road were Chasqui posts which where
people who were trained to memorize and relay messages to troops and central
the Aztec?
The small group of Quechua-speaking people, known as the Inca grew to be the largest
imperial state along the entire spine in the Andes Mountains. A welfare system provides
assistance and help to their people normally taking care of their health and necessities. The
argument made by many historians of the Aztec Empire being an early “welfare state” is true due
to the care they gave to their people and conquered people regarding the amount of work needed,
the food provided if the people where in need of it, and their care for elderly and sick.
The way the government functioned properly with numerous amounts of workers …show more content…
These households had their own
small place for production of food which was usually for their own consumption, but apart from
this they also worked in “sun farms”, which were for the empire and supported temples and
religious institutions. These farms where to be worked on by the people in the Mit’a, and
possessed land in the upper part of their land and in the lower part so they could produce a high
variety of different foods.
1 McEwan, Gordon Francis. The Incas New Perspectives. Santa Barbara, Calif. W. W. Norton & Company, 2006. 90
Shown in the image above is an Inca circular terrace which was used to increase the agricultural
yield3 in Moray, Peru constructed during 15-16th century CE. To maximize the production the
Incas transformed the land constructing various terraces, canals, and irrigation networks shown
in the image above and were not strangers to use fertilizer.
Workers in the sun farms where called mitagons4, they were assigned a certain number of days
they needed to work for the empire and when their time was up other people replaced them
allowing a continuous flow of work. The curacas determined who would provide labor for …show more content…
http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-greatest-mystery-of-the-inca-empire-was-its-strange-1198541254.
16 Chepstow-Lusty, A. J. Chepstow-Lusty, and M.R Frogley. "Putting the Rise of the Inca Empire within a Climatic and
Land Management Context." Climate of the past 5, no. 5 (2009): 375-88. Accessed December 18, 2015. doi:376-
385.
17 Ibid.
18 "Aztec Government and Economy." Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library. Ed. Sonia G. Benson,
Sarah Hermsen, and Deborah J. Baker. Vol. 2: Almanac, Vol. 2. Detroit: UXL, 2005. 477-500. Student Resources in
Context. Web. 18 Dec. 2015.
. The trade specialist called calputin , sold in Tenochtitlan’s busy markets with cacao beans, cloth
and salt as mediums of exchange.
In contrast, the road system in the Inca Empire was used by government officials to deliver
messages or carry out orders from the government. It was one of the largest road systems of all
ancient world empires with over 14,000 miles (22,526 kilometers) of road crossing through
remote part of mountains down to the sea. Along this road were Chasqui posts which where
people who were trained to memorize and relay messages to troops and central