Incas

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Incas
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Incas

• Settled in the valley of the Andes Mountains
• Capital of the Incas was Cuzco
• -another important city was Machu Picchu
• Had a complex system of roads
• -2,500 miles
• -could only be used by royal officials
• travelers.
• Innovations
• -terracing cutting land from the mountain
• side for farming
• -aqueduct brought water from a mile away

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The View from Intipunka

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Looking down on Machu Picchu

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Approaching Machu Picchu

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The City of Machu Picchu

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More Machu Picchu

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Machu Picchu

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Machu Picchu

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Inca Rule

• The ruler was called the Inca
• Most important ruler was Atahuapa
• All land belonged to emperor, people farmed it
  and paid taxes
• Mandatory service in government for men
• -service in army
• -service on government projects
• Marriage mandatory
• -government would choose wife if one not chosen

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Inca Rule cont

• Government supported people
• -state stored extra grain to feed people
• -state took care of sick, old, poor
• Empire was governed through officials who were
  appointed members of royal family
• -they had a highly organized political and
• social structure

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Inca Contributions

• Crowbar
• Medical advancements
• -setting broken bones
• -brain surgery
• -developed medicines from plants
• No Written Language
• -records were kept messages sent with
• the quipu.

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Fall of the Incas

• Incas were conquered by the Spanish
• -use of horses and guns by the Spanish was too
  much for the Inca