The Inca
by Janice Manning
1. if you had part of a land then 2/3 of their land
2. Pachacuti
3. Tupa Inca
4. Huayna Capac
5. the Inca would build bridges
5.1. the Incas put bridges on mountains
5.1.1. A inspector would check the bridges
5.2. the Incas put a bridge over rivers
6. laws
6.1. The land belongs to the inca rulers
6.1.1. They used it for the government and inca temples
6.2. the inca could never slack off because they would be hung and they would have to be pushed off a cliff
7. Coast of South America: Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, Argentina
8. Beliefs
8.1. The sun was important to the Incas
8.1.1. light, heat, survival
8.1.2. crops growth
8.1.3. They believed that their ruler was the son of the sun.
8.2. The inca believed the gold was the sweat of the sun and silver is the tears of the moon
8.3. they thought that gold was sweat to the sun and silver was tars for the moon
9. Rulers
9.1. the rulers expanded their land fighting with other tribes
9.2. had bodyguards
10. being lazy
10.1. punishments:threw stones at you and threw you of a cliff or hanging
10.2. If a messanger was not in his station he will get punished
11. Jobs
11.1. mining,farming,war,women toke care of man
11.1.1. was for the government
11.2. 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.
11.3. architecture
12. wars/military
12.1. What happens if the kids don't listen
13. Farmers
13.1. worked hard
13.2. they had a canal that led it to the terraces
13.3. they dealt with frost and drought
14. War/Military
14.1. had their own store houses throughout their land to keep weapons and food that they would need.
14.2. Made up of.... farmers (part-time), bodyguards (full-time) and relatives of the rulers (made the big decisions, leaders)
15. Inca contrustion
15.1. they made a canal that led them to the terraces
15.2. they made statues
15.3. they did not have that many farmland in the Andis mountains so they had to cut off some of the land and they had to make terraces
16. enviorment struggles
16.1. they had bad soil and they had to deal with droughts
17. inventions
17.1. they made a system for the messangers
17.2. they invented terraces for farmland
17.3. they invented another system that if there was an emergency they were to light a fire near a mountain and everyone would know if someone was invading
17.4. they invented a gold rattle snake
18. WEapons
18.1. spear
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20. made out of a temple
20.1. emperor family on top, royal family below,nobles below, farmers all the way in the bottom.
21. The incas always had great ideas like they knew what they could use to build it .
22. killed local leaders
22.1. If they had kids they had to work for the person
23. New words:
23.1. Qechua
23.2. Noble
24. Questions we have:
24.1. How many years did the Inca tribe lived?
24.2. what happens if the ruler does not have a son?
24.3. where does Qechua come from
24.4. did the messangers get paid ?
24.5. what is the purpose for the statues they made
25. Huge Empire
25.1. Where?
25.1.1. 2,500 miles long
25.1.2. Cuzco (capital city)
25.1.3. Mountains: Andes
25.2. 12 million people
26. llamas
26.1. it helped the Inca climb up mountains
26.1.1. This makes me think the Inca could travel a lot further.
26.2. carry supplies (but not people) of up to 80 pounds
26.3. they made clothes from
26.4. meat
26.5. dung for guel
27. culture
27.1. They spread their language around the land that they owned.
28. Incas expantion
28.1. Not only threw war
28.2. They expanded and ruled by instilling fear
28.3. By being organized
29. Inca society
29.1. Nobles
29.1.1. wore colorful clothes
29.1.2. kind of like managers
29.1.3. did not pay mita-taxes
29.1.4. nobles wore ear lobe
30. building
30.1. they also built roads
30.1.1. officials traveled on these roads
30.1.2. thousands of miles
30.1.3. messengers run on the road
30.1.3.1. the messengers would run to a station
30.1.3.1.1. the runners would tell each other a messege and the second runner would run