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Inca Origins

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Inca’s Myth and History

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Social Studies

Grade 8

Known for their knowledge and architecture, the Incan Empire, was settled in South America. The ruling family, Manco Capac, led the people to the north to settle in

Cuzco,which was soon to become their capital. Historians believe that like many people in the Andean region, Inca left no written history. Stories that were passed down

were from the soldiers of the Spanish conquest. Historians had to be careful, for when they wrote these down, they could not speak the Inca language fluently, and thus,

much was lost in translation. Still, the stories come from the knowledge, architecture, stones, pottery, gold and silver. Inca Empire developed between 1400 and 1580 and

in an area which is now Peru. The area was populated by other Peruvian tribes before the 15^th century.

In the early 1500s’ the Inca Empire have become the most of civilized South America, but when the Inca ruler, Huayna Capac, died before naming a successor,

his sons, Huascar and Atahualpa commenced a civil war. Incas’ first expander was Pachacuti. The second was Tupac Inca, the third was Huayna Capac.

Of the Inca’s conquerors, he was the greatest. By 1500 the Inca Empire stretched from the Pacific Ocean, east to the sources of the Paraguay, and Amazon rivers,

and from the region of modern Quito in Ecuador, south to the Maule River in Chile.

In 1532, Francisco Pissarro, a Spanish conquistador, landed in Peru with a fleet of 180 men. His timing was immaculate, since the empire was confused by the civil wars

between the Incan brothers.

The Inca Empire and culture was largely destroyed by the Spanish. On Pizzaro’s command, Spanish stole over 280,000 kilograms of gold from the Inca, destroying the

written expression of native religion and cultures. Yet many traditions managed to survive in the myths and culture of Peru, Ecuador and Columbia. Also during this time,

small pox had reached the empire from Central America, so the Inca village had the struggle of these unknown diseases that they had to manage.

The Inca did not call themselves the Inca; instead, they were the Tawantin Suyu, which means: “the four united regions.” Before the Spanish conquests came to South

America,the Incas had not discovered iron and similar metals, after the Spanish war attack they then realized how to make the weapons with iron. The Inca Empire

developed when the Spanish arrived. Their cultures might have disappeared but their intelligence of architecture and their works are still remembered in many places.

citation:

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