THE INCAN EMPIRE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBu8Sikhtc

Geographical Oddity Manipulation of Geography A chance to look at a “backwards”

society in comparison to Europe. To make students aware of history

outside the European scope. “Indians” were just as innovative.

Why study the Incas?

Terminology “Verticality” Andean Society/Andes Mountain

Range South America, Peru Quipu Aymara/Quechua Kurakas Huacas Inti

Father Bernabe Cobo: “Nuevo Mundo” Incan Religion and Customs.

Karen Spalding: Huarochiri 1491: Charles C. Mann.

Important Contributions

Karen Spalding“Andes r educe human beings to insignificance, tiny spots on a picture scaled for far more imposing centers of interest…And yet this land, one of the handful of places in the world where people have developed great civilizations, is also of particular interest because of how men and women have turned its characteristics to their advantage” Spalding 9.

Cobo’s Work in the New World

The

Andes

Verticality

The Incan Ruins

Lake Titicaca

Lake Titicaca

“INTI”

THE SUN GOD

Transportation

Moving of GoodshSacrifice

The Alpaca/The Llama

Incan Sacrifices

and Huacas

Communication

QUIPU

Q U I P U

Incan Roadways

Incan Roadways

Coca

Leaves

“GOD, GOLD AND GLORY”

God, Gold and Glory,

Equals Aymara Today