ESPIRIT+INCAS

=**//__ECONOMY__//**=
 * Depended on the state for goods and values
 * Inca's trading was limited because of no merchant class.
 * **chieftains of Ecuador were t**raders othat lived in the nothern part of the empire and relied there for their economy
 * Maize was used as a ritual crop

=**//__SOCIAL LIFE__//**=
 * Between 9 and 13 million people all of different ethnics including languages races and social backrounds was in teh controll of the Incas
 * **Twantinsuyu** was split into 4 provinces.
 * **Curacas** were people who were appoting power by teh Incases in return had to served and give their loyalty in return
 * The **ayllus** (landlord) of each area were in controll the land.
 * Women were making clothes, & working the feilds
 * Men were the majority of peasents.
 * **Yana**s- people who were removed from their ayllus and served permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the Inca or the nobility.
 * moved the people in a conquered terriotry to a new home and place to live.
 * The Nobles sometimes had their very own estates
 * **Split inheirtance** where all the power and titles went to teh successor but all his hands and land and wealth went to the male decedants

=**//__POLICTICAL__//**=
 * A burocreatic governemtn
 * In 1465 Conquered the Chimor
 * **Pachacuti** launched a series of military alliances and campaigns that brought them control of the whole area from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca.
 * Huayna Capac was a leader who suppressd enemies along the frontier
 * **Twantinsuyu** wasname for the Inca Empire…extended frp, chiled to columbia and across vast lakes of ticaca and boliviaf
 * Their army was expanding over mass lands or territoy
 * **Topac Yupanq**ui- conquered the northern coastal kingdom of Chimor by seizing irrigation systems and he extended Inca control into the south area of Ecuador.

=__Interations__=


 * Andean highlands in **Mesoamerica.**
 * the importance of military and the inequality of men and women
 * small population.
 * Did not demand tribute but they extracted labor on the lands assigned to the state.
 * Loyalty and tribute was a main part of life
 * Divded land for people and the people of the state

=**//Religon//**= =**__Interlletual__**=
 * **Temple of Sun-** the center of state and religon and confines the mummies of the past.
 * Ancesestors were highliy important in Inca societys.
 * moutains ans tombs were highly used for sacrafice.
 * Quechua- was the main launguage of teh Inca
 * Sun was the main imrpotance of how earth was.
 * **Viracocha-** a creator God.
 * Numerical order was highliy important and was used daily in life.
 * The population was divided into decimal units.
 * no writing was use
 * mass of the building were used from stone

=//**Techonology**//=
 * Roads and brides were complxed so they could trvale
 * **Tambos**- were way stations that were stored as supply houses, inns and supply centers for the Inca army.
 * 10,000 tambos.
 * had large amounts of irrigation projects.
 * In workshops pottery and cloth were produced. as long with gold and silver
 * the irrigation project and the roads with massive building was the greatest thigns Incas has created
 * Cretaed a wheel jsut like how teh Aztecs did

The Inca life was much smiliar to the Aztecs was of living besides the face they both created teh wheel. The Incas believed in sacrafice and worshiping Gods and the Sun. **Pachacuti** launched a series of military alliances and campaigns that brought them control of the whole area from Cuzco to the shores of Lake Titicaca.**Yana**s- people who were removed from their ayllus and served permanently as servants, artisans, or workers for the Inca or the nobility.moved the people in a conquered terriotry to a new home and place to live. There was really no merchant class but they did depend on the states good and values for survivial.