2. Francisco Pizarro: Francisco Pizarro was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who conquered the Incas located in Peru, in 1532. He claimed land from Panama to Peru for Spain, and also added to their silver.…
Timing was everything for the Spanish forces as their efforts came amid an Inca civil war led by two feuding, power-hungry brothers (Atahuallpa and Huascar). The Incas inhabited a vast and incredible territory that sat atop the Andes Mountains in Peru and they enjoyed three decades of civilization. But, when a right to succession became an issue, the Incan people were split and the stage was set for what would become a complete shift of national control.…
After reading the chapters I would like to know more about the Inca tribe I wonder if perhaps they had a form of writing, and we just have not discovered it yet.…
In the 1500s 80,000 Inca were defeated by only 168 Spaniards, but how? The long term effect on the Inca defeat was the Spanish technology compared to the Inca technology. The Spanish conquistadores had developed guns, they also made steel swords where the Inca had only bronze weapons, the Spanish also had developed a written language while the Inca people had never even seen a book. Spain and all the rest of Europe had developed the plow and other farming techniques such as attaching the plow to animals. This use of animals also gave the Spanish an advantage because they soon became immune to livestock born diseases which they brought upon the Inca. All of these advantages gave the Spanish the upper hand in the fight with the Incas.…
Everything the Incas did ,religiously and politically, had a religious meaning in it. The Incas had a queen(senior wife of king) and she was believed to be linked to the moon. The Inca believed that integration was very important. By using their language(Quechan) they integrated by teaching it too their conquered peoples. They were smart to adopt the split inheritance from the Mayans. The Inca expansion was closely tied together by ancestor worship. They had developed a state bureaucracy of which almost all of the nobility had played a part…
The Inca civilization started around the XII century on Andean mountains region in South America. The Empire grew up so fast that one century later its territory extended through Peru, Ecuador and the north of Chile and its population was more than 20 million. The Inca emperor was considered the son of the sun and almost a god. He had power about all structures of civilization and was wealthy. Like every civilization of this period, the Inca had a blind faith in their gods so mythology was extremely important to them. Gods were the core of their civilization functioning, the Inca acted always according to their beliefs and their gods were present in everyday life like agriculture, war and so on. They were also,…
Analysis: The Inca and the Aztecs in this chapter drew the short end of the stick in many aspects of their lives. Ever since the first European colonist traversed the waters to explore the New Americas, conquests and other strains were put upon these two native groups. For the conquest of the Aztec Empire, came Cortez and his explorations that turned to conquest. It started in 1521C.E, a few years earlier than the conquest of the Inca in 1533 C.E. At first the Aztecs were winning some of the battles and clearly were a force to be reckoned with.…
The Aztecs were an Native Indian tribe, located in modern day Mexico,who ruled a huge part of Mexican territory from the 1400’s to the 1500’s, before they were conquered by Hernando Cortes and the Spanish conquistadors. The Aztecs had one of the most advanced civilizations in the Americas and built cities as large as any in Europe at that time. They had a very unique culture compared to the Spaniards, for example they practiced a religion that affected every part of their lives and featured human sacrificed. Their impressive empire was destroyed by the spaniards in the year 1521, but the Aztecs left a lasting mark on Mexican life and culture.…
The Incas were a centralized empire with expansion methods that were based on maximizing economic gross. Military tactics were focused on invading regions in order to create economic opportunities such as acquiring tribute. The Inca Empire controlled more than 2,000 miles of South American coastline but none of it was considered private property. The idea of private property did not exist in Inca society leading to there no reason to have a slave system. Rather than having slaves, the Incas has a peasantry population, who worked the land or worked on construction…
Before the country of Peru was invaded by Spanish conquistadors and became independent, there stood the Indian tribe of the Incas. Even though most of the Inca population was wiped out, the lifestyle and culture survived the many long years and still prospers in the modern world. Though the industry and lifestyle of the people in Peru have drastically changed from what the Inca initially had, much of the culture today is based on the Inca’s beliefs.…
The noblemen were capable to come up with a testing system to help more people get jobs. Men worked with gold and silver while the women made fabrics and pots. On the other hand, given that the Spanish imposed their own crops and forced the natives off their farmlands, the reservoirs started to deteriorate, and the farmers were out of a job. The Incas were very skillful farmers who relied on terraced and irrigated farming. They used a few methods to make their farms more productive without using wheels or animals to pull the plow. The Spaniards were not accustomed to the ways that the Incas maintained their farms causing them to dry up and become abandoned. This shortage of food caused some of the Incas to starve. Without agriculture, the Incas are not the Incas. The Inca civilization adapted to their environments with creative farming techniques. The Incas had a farming system that provided crops for the whole society. The Spaniards overpowered the Indians, got rid of their traditions, and destroyed their agricultural system. The crops that were important to the Inca society for thousands of years were replaced by European breeds that the Spaniards demanded be…
Domesticated animals carried diseases that the Spanish built up immunities to after many years of epidemics. The Incas didn’t have the same animals, and instead only had Ilamas, so they couldn’t develop immunities to diseases such as smallpox. When the Spanish came to South America, they spread their diseases. Over 95% of the Incas got sick and died. As a result, the Incas got behind in the world.…
Central and South America is said to have been first discovered in the late fifteenth century; however, to say that the land before this time was unknown to all of humanity would be a fallacy and a great insult to the three great ancient cultures that ruled before their European conquest. The Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans were three distinct groups of people that thrived in the Americas prior to their “discovery” and all have a diversely rich background full of people, tradition, and culture.…
The Inca believed in very many gods .one of these many gods was the god of weather his name was llapa also the god of fire manco capa. Once again another god supay leader of the underworld however there are a ton more gods like imanmana the winter god apu the mountain god the lightning god apocatequil zaramama the god of corn and grains capacati the god the lakes also there is quilla the moon god and the god of flowers lofua the god of rain pariacaca the god of wealth is ekkeko the god of happiness was cocomama chasca is the god of dawn and dusk plus viraecha and wirachocha are the two main gods punchua is the god of the sun also the Inca strongly believed in after life too and did you know that the Inca empire was called the land of the four quarters and the poor did not go to school because they could not afford it and vilcanota…
The center of the Inca economy and society was agriculture. The geography of the Inca kingdom consisted of high mountains, desert, and even a vast rainforests. However, most of the population lived in the mountains. One challenge the Inca had to face living in the mountains was altitude. Thin air, steep mountains and freezing nights of the high reaching Andes was challenging. Another part of the kingdom was at a lower elevation which supplied land for farming. The Inca conquered these challenging environments by zoning three different areas for raising different crops and livestock. Zone 1 (below 5,000 ft) also called Yunga was for fruit trees which included avocado and limes. Zone 2 (between 5,000 – 10,000 ft) called Quechua is where…
