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Incas
The Incas were spread along the west coast of South America. They were prominent from the 12th to the 16th centuries. They are known for their art, architecture, mathematics, and astronomy.
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What problems did the Inca have when the Spanish arrived?
In 1525 or 1527, the old ruler of the Incas died, and his two sons, Huascar and Atahualpa, both wanted the throne and fought a bloody war. Atahualpa had just won the war when he was approached by the Spanish under Pizarro in 1532. Through deception, Atahualpa was captured by the Spaniards.
What happened to the Incas and the Aztecs?
Both, in part, fell victim to the colonial interests of Spain. Hernán Cortéz arrived in the Aztec empire in 1519 and allied himself with a Confederacy opposed to the capital, Tenochtitlan, which ended in the eventual destruction of the city in 1520 and the slow collapse of the native government. From 1520-1521 a smallpox outbreak killed 10-50% of the population of the capital, undoubtedly aiding in its downfall, and later epidemics of smallpox and typhoid had reduced the Aztec population by 80% in just 60 years.
A similar story goes for Francisco Pizarro, who arrived in Peru in 1532 to conquer the Incas right as a smallpox outbreak and a civil war were happening. Pizarro and his men allied with one side and were able to make alliances to overthrow the ruler and install themselves in the seats of power. The Inca were hit with wave after wave of epidemics of European origin, wiping out 60-94% of the population. Between these diseases and the harsh conditions of Spanish rule, the vast majority of the Incan culture died out.
What technological advances did the Inca have?
they cut their stones so exact that they didn't need any cement substances
Who is Inti and what did he have his children do?
Inti is the sun god and he taught his kinds the art of civilization and sent them to earth to instruct mankind.
How was the vast Inca empire united?
The Inca built thousands of miles of roads to link all parts of the empire to their capital at Cuzco in present-day Peru...(Btw I got this in a book)
What brought about the end of the Inca civilization?
The end of the Inca civilization was because of the Spanish conquest.
they made the Nazca lines (big symbols only seen from the air)
Whats the name of the last Inca empire?
The Incan (Inca's) empire were conqured by the Spanish in 1532.
At what altitude did the Inca built Cuzco?
The Inca build Cuzco at 11,000 feet in the mountains of southern Peru.
Quipus are strings with multiple knots on them to record births, deaths, farming, and wars. each knot represented a different recording of different information. the knots could have variou sizes and were onmany different coored strings. invented by the incans this makes them very important and them very smart
How did the Inca government and social classes impact their culture and daily lives?
I had to write a paper on this in school I used this website for information, I hope it can help you too.
http://www.nvcc.edu/home/amalitzkego/alex-solorzano/ancient_vacations/incas/incas.htm
What was the location of the Incas?
the location of the incas is in South America in the countries of Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile, and Argentina. They lived in the Andes Mountains which were located in all the countries listed above.
Did Incas write and keep records?
Yes they did
Incans did not write and keep records, which is why much of the information we have now is based on interpretation. There is only one thing the Incans did use to record information, which is called quipo, but no one can figure out what that means yet, all we know so far is that they used it to keep records, related to math. So, the quipo method is no use to us at all. Scientists have collected information on Inca from many sources. One of their sources is from Spanish conquistadors' journals from their invasion in Inca.
Anyway, the answer to your question is a NO.
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Go to http://Archaeology.about.com/od/americanancientwriting/a/quipu.htm
There they describe how that quipu were, we now think, used for very much more than just numerical information.
"The Inka kept their accounts, their genealogy, their astronomical calculations, and (probably) their stories on a complicated system of cords and knots, called quipu (also spelled khipu). We know this in part because once the Jesuit missionaries of the Spanish Inquisition recognized the range of function of the quipu, they did their best to destroy as many as humanly possible. The description of the quipu as "a system of cords and knots" does not do justice to their complexity; and it is that complexity that is so convincing. Quipus have information stored in them using cord color, cord length, knot type, knot location, cord twist direction. ...
... a new book called Narrative Threads, edited by Jeffrey Quilter and Gary Urton, describes how a handful of scholars is working towards cracking the code."
If writing is defined as "a system of symbolic representation of facts which permanently stores those facts for later retrieval by anyone familiar with the system used" - then the Inca had writing, but using cloth rather than paper, or payrus or stone or clay.
What is still in doubt is whether the quipu match another defintion of writing which says, "a system of permently recording the spoken word." However, some other systems of "writing" such a Egyptian heiroglyphs might also fail to qualify under that defintion.
So the answer to your question should start, "The Incas certainly kept records - they appear to have had an efficient bureaucracy running a large empire." But on the question as to whether they had writing, you have to start off with, "It all depends on what you mean by "writing".
How did the Incas treat the people that they conquered?
The Incas treated the people they conquered by having more emphasis on having those people become loyal Inca subjects.
