document 5 shows how the roads that Inca made were the most extensive and advanced transportation system ever seen before the Columbian South America. Extending for thousands of miles and having hundreds of branches the road system made the communication and transportation between the cities easier. The irrigation system is perhaps one of the most impressing of any of the ones ever seen. In document 4‚ Garcilazo de la Vega describes the cleverness of the Inca by building this system. He explains
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Francisco Pizarro Spanish Class Francisco Pizarro was born in Trujillo‚ Extremadura‚ Spain‚ in 1475 and passed away on June 26‚ 1541. He was a conquistador who conquered the Inca Empire and founded the city of Lima‚ Peru. This is why he was best known as the Spaniard who conquered the Incas. He was the son of Gonzalo Pizarro Rodríguez de Aguilar (senior) who as colonel of infantry. His mother was Francisca González Mateos‚ a poor woman from Trujillo. His parents never got married; he was brought
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adobe houses built of sun dried bricks. Eventhough‚ most of the Indians were scattered in small villages there were three groups that built large civilizations before the white man came. In Central and South America‚ the Mayas‚ the Aztecs‚ and the Incas lived in large cities and developed many skills. The Pre-Columbian era was a time that Indians or Indegenous cultures flourished to maintain there traditions. The Mayan civilization‚ located in the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico and in Guatemala flourished
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Cosmic Creation Myths Across Cultures The story of Rangi & Papa and Viracocha Leah E. Johnson University of Phoenix HUM/105 World Mythology Instructor: Kristen McQuinn July 21‚ 2013 Reading the various stories of how the world came to be is absolutely enthralling and totally captivating. One can lose hours reading story after story‚ especially since even each individual creation myth can have many various telling of the same story depending on region and individual tribes in a certain
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built well-organized cities and developed a writing system based on pictures. The Incas‚ in particular‚ were uniquely impressive. Just as any empire‚ the Incas needed to standardize the necessities‚ such as language and trade. Accomplishing this could have been a tedious task‚ for the Incan Empire stretched over 12‚000 miles in the Andes Mountains. To enhance transportation speed‚ of both items and ideas‚ the Incas created roads and rope bridges subsequently creating an ease of access to the rest
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that of religion and did that as a main foci point of the group they were involved in. To begin groups existed before the Maya but weren’t as established as the Maya culture was. Moreover‚ this culture will be the one that future cultures like the Incas and Aztecs will go off from to create their own society but more on that later. To begin was a group of Indians that came before the Mayans. These Indians hunt the vast amount of animal that were around at that time. It was more a nomadic society.
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the sick and to help protect their herds‚ crops‚ families‚ and/or homes. During the ceremonies they sing songs which include a Blessingway Song. The song brings a blessing for a happy and long life. It I also used to bless new marriages. However‚ the Inca culture was directed by a great coordinated priesthood and engaged on honoring royal ancestors as well as gods. The priests relied on fortune-telling to answer all types of phenomenon’s‚ from analyzing sickness to deciding who’s innocence or guilty
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limited. * Mori from New Zealand were fierce warriors because of dense population‚ so they had to compete for agricultural societies. 3. What elements led to the conquest of the Incas by Pizarro? What advantages did Pizarro have that the Incas did not? If it had been the other way around‚ would the Incas have invaded Spain? * Sophisticated weapons * Superior oceans going ships * Superior political organization of European states * Superior knowledge of human behavior
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continents after him “America”. (From Richard Bulliet et al.‚ The Earth and Its Peoples‚ v. 2‚ 5th edn (Wadsworth/Cengage‚ 2012)‚ pg. 364). In the Americas there were already people living there‚ like the Arawak‚ the Aztecs of Mexico City‚ and the Incas of Peru. The first European settlers in the Caribbean wanted to kill and steal rather than trade. This practice continued on to more powerful Amerindian kingdoms on the mainland. (From Richard Bulliet et al.‚ The Earth and Its Peoples‚ v. 2‚ 5th edn
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Museum Council of Peru explains that the artist‚ Montero‚ purposefully displayed the Incan women as white and European-like. He even has them positioned in the area of the room lit up by the sun‚ giving them the role of the good in the eyes of the Inca who worshiped the sun god‚ and Pizarro and his men in the dark are seen as more “evil.” Montero made sure that the Incan women had a European-like appearance‚ because this look is recognized as one of superiority and intelligence‚ rather than the inferior
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