Inca EmpireBy: Roslyn Blankenship

Julie Robinson6th

11/10/14

The reason I choose to do the Incas is because they are cool people to learn about. They also make things a certain way. They never made it different like their farms its all made the same way!! I really Hope you enjoy this slide show I have made about the Incas and their Empire!!!!!!

Where did I get my facts

• My Notes• Google• Text books (Library)

6 Facts about Inca’s

• The Incas created a highway and road system in Peru with over 18,000 miles of roads.

• The Incas had a type of postal system where relay messengers ran across rope bridges to deliver communications to the next team. Messengers lived in pairs, with one person sleeping and the other on alert for messages.

• The Incas performed successful skull surgeries.

• The Incas were the first to cultivate the potato in Peru.

• The Incas administered intelligence tests to Incan children and based on their results they were either taught a trade or sent to school to become administrators or part of the nobility.

• The Incas worshiped the sun god Inti and the Incan emperor was believed to have been a direct descendent of the sun god.

Summary

The Inca Empire or Inka Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu[pronunciation] was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century, and the last Inca stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.

From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including, besides Peru, large parts of modern Ecuador, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and central Chile, and a small part of southern Colombia into a state comparable to the historical empires of Eurasia.

The official language of the empire was Quechua, although hundreds of local languages and dialects of Quechua were spoken. The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu which can be translated as "The Four Regions" or "The Four United Provinces."

Many local forms of worship persisted in the empire, most of them concerning local sacred Huacas, but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti—the sun god—and imposed its sovereignty above other cults such as that of Pachamama. The Incas considered their king, the Sapa Inca, to be the "child of the sun."

Inca empireInca Empire Farming Land

More facts

• The Incan empire stretched about 2,500 miles long• There was over 12 million people that lived there.• Didn’t have their own written language• Stretched from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific

Ocean• Cut terraces into the Andes Mt. to create more farm

land• Runners ran 250 miles

Map Of Incan Empire