THE INCAN EMPIRE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBu8S ikhtc
Feb 24, 2016
THE INCAN EMPIRE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbBu8Sikhtc
Geographical Oddity Manipulation of Geography A chance to look at a “backwards”
society in comparison to Europe. To make students aware of history
outside the European scope. “Indians” were just as innovative.
Why study the Incas?
Terminology “Verticality” Andean Society/Andes Mountain
Range South America, Peru Quipu Aymara/Quechua Kurakas Huacas Inti
Father Bernabe Cobo: “Nuevo Mundo” Incan Religion and Customs.
Karen Spalding: Huarochiri 1491: Charles C. Mann.
Important Contributions
Karen Spalding“Andes r educe human beings to insignificance, tiny spots on a picture scaled for far more imposing centers of interest…And yet this land, one of the handful of places in the world where people have developed great civilizations, is also of particular interest because of how men and women have turned its characteristics to their advantage” Spalding 9.
Cobo’s Work in the New World
The
Andes
Verticality
The Incan Ruins
Lake Titicaca
Lake Titicaca
“INTI”
THE SUN GOD
Transportation
Moving of GoodshSacrifice
The Alpaca/The Llama
Incan Sacrifices
and Huacas
Communication
QUIPU
Q U I P U
Incan Roadways
Incan Roadways
Coca
Leaves
“GOD, GOLD AND GLORY”
God, Gold and Glory,
Equals Aymara Today