2. Key Words:
• Build a city
• Incas
• Farming
• Most important city
• Constructions made of Stone
• Ate quinoa, amaranth, corn, potatoes and potato flour.
• Built temples, palaces and forts
• They raised llamas, alpacas and vicunas
• The spanish Conquered them
3. THE BEGINNING OF THE EMPIRE
• LEGEND
OF LAKE
TITICACA:
Manco
Capac,
and his
wife,
Mama
Ocllo.
• THE AYAR BROTHERS:
Ayar Cachi, Ayar Uchu,
Ayar Auca, and Ayar
Manco.
4. LOCATION
• Located in The
Andes of South
America.
• West cost of
South America
in Colombia,
Ecuador,
Bolivia, Peru,
Chile and
Argentina.
5. POLITICAL STRUCTURE
• Tawantinsuyo
tawa = “four”
suyo = “region”
• Basics of politics
– Reciprocal obligation
– Social groups
– Local lords
TAWANTINSUYO
Chinchaysuyo
Contisuyo
Collasuyo
Antisuyo
11. SCULPTURE
• In sculpture, the Incas did
many elaborate works. They
were mostly made of stone,
but they also made it in metals
such as gold and silver, as well
as in wood.
13. CALENDAR
• The Inca calendar is the time
measurement system used by
the Incas in Cuzco. It was
determined from the
observation of the Sun and the
Moon. The 360-day year was
divided into 12 moons of 30
days each.
14. CLOCK
• The system of time
measurement used by the
Incas, in Cuzco. It was
determined from the
observation of the Sun and the
Moon.
15. RECORD KEEPING: THE QUIPU
Inca used Quipu for calculating and remember numbers.
16. WORK SYSTEMS
• Mita: It was a system of work in favor of the Imperial State of
Tahuantinsuyo, were people to work in turn in construction of roads,
bridges, forts, administrative centers, temples and more.
• Minka: Community work that was carried out in works in favor of the
ayllu and the Sun (Inti).
• Ayni: System of work of family reciprocity between the members of
the ayllu, destined to agricultural works and to the constructions of
houses. Mutual help.
17. ECONOMIC STRUCTURE
• No money, no shops or
market
• Sapa Inca owned
everything and gave the
people what they needed
to live
• Economy based on
agriculture and herding
(foodstuffs, clothes).
18. INCAS
There are no exact birth and death dates for these leaders, except for
the deaths of the last five. instead, these are the estimated dates of
when they ruled.
19. MANCO CAPAC AND MAMA OCLLO
The most famous Incas
and those who started
the Inca culture.
20. SINCHI ROCA
Was the second ruler of
the Curacazgo of Cuzco.
Legitimate son of Manco
Capac and Mama Ocllo.
21. LLOQUE YUPANQUI
• Was the third ruler of
the Curacazgo of Cuzco.
He did not achieve any
territorial expansion in
his government. Was the
son of Sinchi Roca.
22. PACHACUTEC
• Son of Wiracocha (Huiracocha
or Viracocha) was the ninth
ruler of the Inca state and who
converted it from a simple
curacazgo into a great empire:
the Tahuantinsuyo.
• Although not designed as a
successor by Father
Huiracocha Inca, he led a
military defense.
23. HUASCAR
• Huáscar was the twelfth Inca of
Tahuantinsuyo, one of the ten
blood sons of Huayna Capac and
one of the third with access to the
throne.
• Many claimed the throne, including
his brother Atahualpa, who might
end up taking it by force in 1532,
arresting him and then ending his
life and being captive Francisco
Pizarro.
24. ATAHUALPA
• Was the thirteenth Inca or
sovereign of the Inca empire. His
father, Huayna Capac, died without
leaving a successor named.
• This resulted in the bloody Inca civil
war for the succession between
Atahualpa and his brother Huáscar.
• Atahualpa managed to defeat
Huáscar in 1532 near Cuzco. It was
in his government where the
Spaniards conquered Peru,
Atahualpa was captured.
