Incas
The INCA Empire is founded starting
from the
xii E century by Quechuas, populates originating in the
valley of Cuzco, in Peru.
To the
xv E century, under the action of the sovereign god Viracocha,
he knows a significant growth and grows rich by many territories and new
people. Its apogee dates from the beginning of
the xvi E century.
The death of the last resistant
sovereign, Túpac Amaru, carried out by the Spanish conquerors in 1572, mark
its final destruction.
RELIGIOUS LIFE
The emperor, also appointed by the word
"INCA", which means "Wire of the Sun", is regarded as an
alive god. He is venerated by the whole of the population. The religious
life of Incas also rests on the worship of divinities like Inti, the god sun,
but especially on the returned worship with Viracocha, god of the creative sky
of the Universe, to which Incas offer many sacrifices.
THE INCA COMPANY
Very treated
on a hierarchical basis and divided
into castes, the INCA company is dominated by an elite belonging mainly to
the family of the sovereign. The empire is subjected to a very rigorous
administrative cutting and a permanent control of the representatives of the
State.
The agriculture, based on the
culture of corn and potato, occupies a very significant place. Incas are
also of large manufacturers. They trace many roads which facilitate
displacements in the heart of their gigantic Empire and raise many religious
and administrative buildings.
The principal historic sites of the INCA
Empire are Cuzco, the capital, where a famous temple of the Sun is built, and
the city fortress of Machu Picchu.
The INCA craft industry is consisted by
the work of bronze and especially the weaving of the fabrics which have a great value.
TO GO FURTHER
? mythologies amérindiennes
? Mayas
? Olmèques
? Toltèques
? interactivity: chronology of the Middle Ages
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