Session 2 - The Inca Empire

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Session 2 - The Inca Empire
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Inca 1200 AD to 1530s

• The great imperialists administrators of
  empire
• Highly disciplined, organized, effective and
  militaristic when they had to be

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Cuzco Lake Titicaca
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Ayllu
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Ayllu

• Mutual aid and responsibility
• Communal life and reciprocities between members
• Precursor of welfare state
• Most humiliated, despised class within the empire
  were people blackballed by their ayllus for
  offenses against the community

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Politics - Tahuantinsuyu
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Cusi Yupanqui - Pachacuti
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Coricancha
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El Dorado
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Administrators of Empire How?
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Highway System 50,000 kms
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Chasqui
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Quipu - Tambo
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Quipu - Tambo
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Tambo
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Inca militarism
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Reciprocity - Chicha
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Tax/Tribute/Mita
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Mitamae social control
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Inca submission through education
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Conflict external and internal
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Political succession
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