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The geographycial location of the inka empire
The empire of the inkas stretched from Ecuador to the center of Chile and the spanish conquestadors calles it Empire of the four quater.
The center of the empire was Cuzco,it lay on a plateu. The inkas had no font therefore legends andexcavation are important.The first monach was Manco Capac who build Cuzco.Primary two hundread and fifty years later the inka Pachacuti begann to expand the empire.
Mirrage
Young men had a woman for just a month or two for a challange. Then he married her or he send her home to her family. But also the woman can broke up the try of marrriage.
Main and tributarywifes
When a men were married with more than one wife he was more respected by the others. But mens can got some wifes from the inka ,for example when they were succesfull in a war. The indians think that nothing is valueable as a wife. The Inkamonarch had sevenhundread wifes.The Mainwife was his oldest sister and also some of his tributary wifes were related with him.
People all ages
All people in the empire had different tasks. Male childrem from five to nine years must do little work in the hosehold. Male children with twelve years must scare away the birds from the fields. Young men with 18 years must do some technical work. Young men until to the 25 liveyear must help their parents by the work in house and on the fields. If there were war they had to figth for the Inkas. Primary throught the marriage men become full adults. Then they had to work as farmers or in the mines. Men with were older then 50 must not fight when there was a war. They collected timber or they worked as supervisors. Women must be married, when they were 18 years. When they were under 18 they did easy work in the household and the married women suported their husbands by all their work. Women with are older then 50 worked as weavers. A blind men must married a blind women and also a dumbed men had to marry a dumbed women. If a women didn't find a husband, she take a lover therefor she didn't stay childless.
The impire of the women
The wife had to serve her husband like a slave. She had to most of the work. She had to educate the children, the women had to cook and the had to make all the colthes. The Inkas belived that the men were not able to do something without the help of their wifes. There were also some difference between the sexes for example by the religion. The women prayed to the Goddess of the moon. She was the mother of all women and gave them food and clothes. The men prayed to the God of the sun that he had create them and that he proteced them in wars. In august when they sowed corn the men dig a hole with a plough and the women had to reduce the earth into small pieces.
The convent of the sunvirgin
These young girls had a particulary standing because they were seperated from their family. They lived in convents and they learned to cook, to wob and they make the clothes of the Inka, he wear every piece of clothing just one time. Outsider were not allowed to go into the building. Only the Inka his mainwife and their daughters were allowed to go into the convent. Some of the girls gave the Inka to brave warrior and some of them he choosed as secondary wife. When another men as the Inka sleep with a sunvirgin, both were bureyed alive. Also the wife and the children of the men were killed and their house were destroyed.
Life and habitation
The huts were little, dark and had only one big room. In the huts they were some ginepigs which eat the food which fall down. Only the aristocracty had chairs and tabels. The people had attach importance to tidy rooms. If the house were tidy they get clothes and other things from the Inka.
Eating and drinking
The main food were potatoes and corn. Other important pieces of the food were tomatoes, pumkins, beans and peannuts. The meals of the aristocracts and the Inka monach were very extensive and dilicious, for example corn soft and white as cotton or the meat from rabbits and lots of fruits. When other people touch the meal they were exicuted. An important role played fishing when the spanish army arrived they were 40.000 fishing boats.
The Indians were strong drinker and water was their badest pradator. Nearly ever Chicha that was a alcohlic drink with the basis on corn.
Knotcord
The Inkas had no scribt but the monarch knew the nummber, the age and the sex of all the people in the empire. The knotcord consisted of one main rop and on this were many cords with different colours and different lengths tied. The knots in the different colours and lengths delivered the information. The Imkas knoted the knotcords which the decimalsystem. When 6.503 men should fight in a war they make six knots into the cord which stand for 1.000, five into the knots which stand for 100 and three into the end of the cord.
Body, spirit and soul
God of the sky and the earth
Next to Inti the God of the sun there are some other Gods. A important role played the Creater God Pachacamac. He was a old man with a longe white beard and long white hair. The tribes which are beaten by the Inka must also pray to Inti. Another important role played Pachamama the Goddess of earth. She was very important for the farmers. The Inkas believe that illnesses stood in compount with witches and bad spirits. The people which were ill must beath in the water from two rivers. They also made operation for example brain operation or amputations from arms or legs. Before they made this operations they anaesthetize the people with cocain. Some of the patients survied, but when a patient die and the doctor was not so well known he also can be murdered.
Machu Pichu
Machu Pichu founded in 1450 itwas a Sacreddistrict with a suntempel and a obseratory and a culturalcenter.
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