Inca Empire (World Cultures)

Pachacuti: The first Inca ruler who used his military alliances and military campaigns to take over. He settled the warring chiefdoms who were fighting for power before him.

Tawantinsuyu: Inca word for their empire; region from Colombia to Chile and eastward into Bolivia and Argentina.

Split inheritance: Inca practice of descent; all titles and political power went to successor, but wealth and land remained in hands of male descendants for support of cult of dead Inca's mummy.

Temple of the Sun: Inca religious center located at Cuzco; center of state religion; held mummies of past Incas.

Incan socialism: Garcilaso de la vega's depiction of the Incan empire being somewhat of a utopia where every community contributed to the whole and the state fairly distributed resources.

In the Incan empire there were _ provinces ruled by _ which showed __: four; governors; autonomy

The Incas had no ___ ___ and used ___ and ___ instead: written language; messengers; oral history

The incans used/had ___, ___ farming, and ___ systems: irrigation; terraced: road

Meanings of Inca: The people, the religion, the leader.

Incan reason for conquest: $$, land, and political power.

Rise of Inca Empire: Pachacutti used his military alliances and campaigns to take over- he settled the warring chiefdoms.

Fall of Inca Empire: The Europeans crashed the party with their disease and guns. There were marriage and succesion issues, when a family would be infiltraded. Then there was Pizarro who killed the Inca and claimed the land for himself.