The Inca
by Janice Manning
1. if you had part of a land then 2/3 of their land
2. made out of a temple
2.1. emperor family on top, royal family below,nobles below, farmers all the way in the bottom.
3. Pachacuti
4. Tupa Inca
5. Huayna Capac
6. The incas always had great ideas like they knew what they could use to build it .
7. the Inca would build bridges
7.1. the Incas put bridges on mountains
7.1.1. A inspector would check the bridges
7.2. the Incas put a bridge over rivers
8. laws
8.1. The land belongs to the inca rulers
8.1.1. They used it for the government and inca temples
8.2. the inca could never slack off because they would be hung and they would have to be pushed off a cliff
9. killed local leaders
9.1. If they had kids they had to work for the person
10. Coast of South America: Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina
11. New words:
11.1. Qechua
11.2. Noble
12. Questions we have:
12.1. How many years did the Inca tribe lived?
12.2. what happens if the ruler does not have a son?
12.3. where does Qechua come from
12.4. did the messangers get paid ?
12.5. what is the purpose for the statues they made
13. Huge Empire
13.1. Where?
13.1.1. 2,500 miles long
13.1.2. Cuzco (capital city)
13.1.3. Mountains: Andes
13.2. 12 million people
14. llamas
14.1. it helped the Inca climb up mountains
14.1.1. This makes me think the Inca could travel a lot further.
14.2. carry supplies (but not people) of up to 80 pounds
14.3. they made clothes from
14.4. meat
14.5. dung for guel
15. Beliefs
15.1. The sun was important to the Incas
15.1.1. light, heat, survival
15.1.2. crops growth
15.1.3. They believed that their ruler was the son of the sun.
15.2. The inca believed the gold was the sweat of the sun and silver is the tears of the moon
15.3. they thought that gold was sweat to the sun and silver was tars for the moon
16. Rulers
16.1. the rulers expanded their land fighting with other tribes
16.2. had bodyguards
17. culture
17.1. They spread their language around the land that they owned.
18. Incas expantion
18.1. Not only threw war
18.2. They expanded and ruled by instilling fear
18.3. By being organized
19. being lazy
19.1. punishments:threw stones at you and threw you of a cliff or hanging
19.2. If a messanger was not in his station he will get punished
20. Jobs
20.1. mining,farming,war,women toke care of man
20.1.1. was for the government
20.2. there was another job called messangers that they waited in there station then they ran to the other messanger but before they get there they blow the shell then the other one ran to get the message and at last thay went to give the message.
20.3. architecture
21. wars/military
21.1. What happens if the kids don't listen
22. Inca society
22.1. Nobles
22.1.1. wore colorful clothes
22.1.2. kind of like managers
22.1.3. did not pay mita-taxes
22.1.4. nobles wore ear lobe
23. Farmers
23.1. worked hard
23.2. they had a canal that led it to the terraces
23.3. they dealt with frost and drought
24. War/Military
24.1. had their own store houses throughout their land to keep weapons and food that they would need.
24.2. Made up of.... farmers (part-time), bodyguards (full-time) and relatives of the rulers (made the big decisions, leaders)
25. building
25.1. they also built roads
25.1.1. officials traveled on these roads
25.1.2. thousands of miles
25.1.3. messengers run on the road
25.1.3.1. the messengers would run to a station
25.1.3.1.1. the runners would tell each other a messege and the second runner would run