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Title: Machu Picchu


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Machu Picchu
  • Ancient city of the Inca
  • Located in the Andes Mountains in Peru
  • Hiram Bingham rediscovered it in 1911

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Challenges of the life in the Empire
  • Enormous size - 2500 miles long
  • Various landscape
  • Coastal deserts
  • Andes Mountain range
  • rain forest
  • Climate varied from tropical to polar
  • More than 6 million people had to be fed each day

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Inca Agricultural Techniques
  • Terraced mountains sides
  • Channeled water diverted river
  • Filled drained marshes
  • People produced corn, potatoes and other produce

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Huayna Capac
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Expansion of the Inca Empire
  • Pachacuti
  • Had a vision that convinced him to see warfare
    spread Inca culture
  • Promised peace gifts, won many battles
  • Forced conquered people to obey Inca leaders -
    allowed them to keep their own language, leaders
    and gods

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  • Topa Inca Yupaqui
  • Pachacutis son
  • Enormous empire under him
  • Used new methods to collect taxes
  • Huayna Capac
  • Ruled empire at a high point
  • Fathered 2 sons - Huascar and Atahualpa - they
    did not trust eachother
  • 6 year civil war between the 2 sons
  • Atahualpa won, but the wars weakened the Inca
    empire.

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  • Sapa Inca
  • Descendant of Sun god
  • Ruled by divine right
  • Subjects not allowed to look him in the eye
  • Did not walk as a mortal but carried in a litter
  • Married to Coya (empress)
  • Nobles
  • Capac Incas were Inca nobles by blood
  • Controlled land valuable resources
  • Leaders of the govt, army, and priests
  • Also became governors
  • Government officials
  • Many levels of officials
  • At the bottom were leaders from conquered regions

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Ruling a Vast Empire
  • Used quipu to keep records
  • Consisted of knotted strings
  • System used to keep records
  • of numbers of days worked,
  • corn and llamas
  • The empire was divided into
  • households
  • Every 10 households governed by
  • the head of one household
  • Collected taxes easily
  • Inca laws regulated daily life
  • Jobs designated for everyone Commoners worked
    the land
  • Inca fields, contributed food, Cloth to
    warehouses
  • Commoners helped with large scale projects - army
    roads
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