Inca empire

Well, Veeky Forums I see there are a lot of mesoamerican threads and shitposting from the incatard and pol baiters. I'll dump some info about the empire.

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>Inca society

>The Inca society was based on the stratification of classes.The stratification wasn't static, popular class individuals could reach the nobility with exceptional intelectual and warrior work and experience.
>Classes:
>-The Royal family: The Inca (Divine origin King), the Colla (Queen) and the Auqui (Prince)

>-The noble class : royal blood relatives and families, priviledged (popular exceptional people) and province nobility (these families were instructed to the management of the ayllus(communities).

>-Popular class: Hatun runas (commom man), Mitimaes (families of already conquered villages which were ordered to live on a new conquered village and had the duty to teach them Quechua; this strategy was used by the Inca administration so the local identity of the conquered cultures was morphed as several families abandoned the villages, that's how insurrections and revolts were prevented), Yanaconas (POWs or minor delincuents converted to slaves of the nobility and the royal family) and Piñas (POWs or criminals which had to be forced to work for the empire mostly sent to the jungle part of the Tawantinsuyu)

Political organization:
>From a political POV, the Inca empire was a teocrathic absolutist monarchy. The government power was inherited from father to a single son. The great element of unification was the language, so the Incas sent professors and made sure the constant use of Quechua. The other element was religion, as all cultures had to accept the Inti sun god, but they were allowed to preserve their past gods.

>-Inca: He was the sovereign of the empire, he had the highest political power and the religious power, as religious leader he was called Sapa Inca. Unrestricted power and every order made by him was immediately commited, despite the absolutist power most Incas governed and benefited the people applying the reciprocity principles and redistribution, charasteristics of the Inca society. The Inca lived on Cusco in a palace specially built for him, so Cusco was the origin of the Royal family and the capital of the empire, and from there he governed helped by lots of Inca officials who traveled from North to South of the empire delivering him the administration information of every zone, this administration was pretty efficient thanks to the Chasquis who were the andean messengers that were trained since they were kids so they could help the state.

>-Auqui (Prince): He was the heir prince,he was chosen between numerous individuals. The Auqui was chosen by his traits: bravery, courage , cunning... The warrior traits were important as much as the religious ones. The Auqui since the moment he is elected, he was trained for his future reign exercising a co-reign with the father Inca. He was trained and taught the administrative and guvernment duties of the Inca by the best teachers of the empire, which were brought to the capital.
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>-The imperial council: It was an adviser organization made up for the Suyo-lords, and it was ruled by the Apo-Suyo, who acted in the name of the Inca. The territory was divided into: Suyo->Wamani(Province)->Saya(Sector)->number of Ayllus(large families which were given part f these lands for agriculture duties, they were self-sustaining). Each subdvision of the Suyos were managed by officials.

>They assembled under the direction of the Inca as they reported the administrative labour of each region. They also advised the Inca about greater trascendence matters for optimizing the administrative-political process of the empire.

>Some important officials:
>-Apunchic: Regional governors who had to guard and inspect the Tucuyicuy. Order and rules had to be complied for the co-existence based on the ideal of reciprocity and productivity. The most vaorous and distinguished warriors were chosen to be Apunchic, so their duties were administrative/militar.

>-Tucuyricuy ("El que todo lo ve"): State officials who had to travel incognito to different zones of the empire, making sure the rules were complied. In some cases, they had to reveal their identity showing a textil royal band. He collected the tributes and had to bring them to Cusco(capital).

>-Curaca: Most of them were warlords of conquered tribes who accepted the Inca. They ruled ver the Ayllu. They had to collect the tributes from the Ayllu and give them to the Tucuyricuy. He had to guard and put order on them. (distribution of lands, protection of the poor, hidraulic net maintenance, territory guard, communal work organization, redistribution of some surplus goods).

Got any more stuff senpai?

Administrative organization:

>For the best administrative organization it was important to unify the empire on different characteristics:

>-Language: Runa Simi (Quechua). It was spoken all over the territory.

>-Population control: It was made thanks to the decimal based census, establishing a work, production and tax control. The ayllus(large families) were made up of various relatives.
>**Purej -> Head of the ayllu. Elected by the community. 1 year of duration in charge.
>**Chunca camayoc-> Organized 10 ayllus. Elected by the community. 1 year of duration in charge.
>**Pachaca camayoc-> Organized 100 ayllus. Elected by the community. 1 year of duration in charge.
>**Huaranca camayoc-> Organized 1000 ayllus. Elected by the Inca. Several years of duration in charge.
>**Huno camayoc-> Organized 10000 ayllus. Elected by the Inca. Several years of duration in charge.
>**Huamani/sichi->Organized 40000 ayllus in times of war. Elected by the Inca. Several years of duration in charge.
>*The ayllus assembled where they could solve the matters of the community. The elected by the Inca had to report the matters to their superior.

>-Quipu: Pic related. Used for accounting and administration. It's vaguely suspected that it was also a writing system. Only state officials knew how to use them. The Quipucamayoc were specialized and trained to use the Quipu. The knowledge of using the Quipu was also transmitted from father to son, so the system could improve over time.

>-Tributes: It consisted on the value of work. The commom men (18-50 years old) had to work for the state (harvesting, cattle raising, bridge construction, roads, palaces or taking care of the soil). It was imperative and organized by turns.

Yep. I was checking other things.

any stuff about textiles and dress? I really like their clothes

I'm gonna check some Inca warfare info I got on some books. The good side of the Inca information is that the archaelogical and revisionism activity is increasing due to the new findings in the last 30 years.

After the militar part i'll translate it.

>the bastard tyrant Atahualpa
He looks so smug.

Keep going fag

natives from isla de la luna LARPing as incas

inti raymi in cuzco

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Incan Jewess in Judea. One of the most extreme settlers of all in the West Bank is full of Inca Jews, lots of them are extreme Kahanists too and want all the Arabs expelled from Israel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inca_Jews

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Title of arms granted to Gonzalo Uchu Hualpa and Felipe Tupac Inca Yupanqui in 1545.

spaniards vs incas

incan mummy

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bump, keep posting

Why are Incas superior to Aztecs?

The cutest girls were selected and trained to be the perfect nobility's wives.

fuck off, shitposter

Check out that Tri-force.

inca road officials

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what the fuck

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How would an interpretatio graeca/romana of the Incan religion be?

Pachamama = Demeter/Ceres.
Viracocha = Zeus/Jupiter for the ruler of the sky aspect, or perhaps Apollo for the solar aspect.

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What's sad is that we have absolutely no idea what the world would have been like if the Incans had the time and freedom to continue creating their empire. The things they may have contributed to worldly culture had they continued on their path if the Spanish never came thru.

Think about it.

Chimu-Inca weaving tools and container

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inca metalwork

those are aymara gods
aymaras were to the incas what greeks to Rome

>aymara
you mean Tiwanaku and Wari

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>making metal corn decorations
So simple and boring. Did they make anything else better than that? Surely they must've excelled at something as all individual peoples have their little idiosyncrasies.

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well they knew how to build
> in b4 that´s a spanish house

That corn is actually the only object left form a real size garden made from gold and silver.
They did gold statues but all of them were melted.
And the incas valued fine cloth more than gold or silver, they were the best weavers until the industrial revolution.

This, Tiahanuco was da real OG of the Andes. Incas copy most of their panteon gods from them.

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a bronze mirror

welcome to megalarp

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mining pick

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weapons

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What's with the triforce tatoo?
I thought that symbol originated in Japan as the Hōjō clan symbol.

Keep in mind that a lot of metalworking and structures that were built by the Inca and other Andean civilizations were melted down or taken apart by the Spanish after the Spanish took over.

an inca tumi knife
adopted from the northern andes, though the incas unlike some previous cultures used them mostly as utilitarian tools, then for war and to make llama sacrifices
they didn't use them for human sacrifices because they wanted to send perfect people, without a scar, that's why they left them unconscious in the mountain peaks until they die from hypothermia

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Copper.

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How did they have an empire living in the mountains? Where did they get their food?

chimu inca silver depilatory tweezers

inca tweezers found in machu picchu

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other mirrors found in machu picchu
three of them aren't in a good shape because they weren't buried, unlike the other one.

>Where did they get their food
from terraces

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war between andeans

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qulla ring from the inca era

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pre-inca hair comb