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INTRODUCTION Our group consits of Darien Engelhardt, Jomel Sampang, and Emerson Gaber and we chose the Inca society. In our essay we will cover the types of food they ate, the religion they believed in, the government they followed, where they were located and more. We chose to do the Incas because they were one of the most intresting civilizations. They were so advanced in how things worked and how they ran things. If something was not right, they did not use it.

The Incas were polytheists which mean that they had their own God’s and animals that they worshipped. Some of the God’s and animals they worshiped are animals like the Puma which is their most sacred animal in Inca history. There was eight God’s that the Inca’s worshipped. They were Inti and Maco Capac, the sun God and his son, Mama Quilla, the goddess of the moon, Pachamac, the God of Earth, Konira Wirakocha, he was a trickster and prankster, Supai, the God of death, Viracocha, the creator of everything that is on the Earth and his sons Tocapo Virachocha and Imahmana Viracocha who were sent after the great flood and the creation to make sure everything and everybody on Earth were still following their commandments. (library.thinkquest.org/5058/inca.htm) In the relationship part of the Incas lifestyle, the men had to choose their wife before the age of twenty or a wife would be chosen for them. A wife did not have a choice on whom they married but that’s only after they turn twenty. If they find a man that asks for their hand in marriage then they can marry that man. The marriages were very strange though. The couple would join hands and then they would exchange sandles. The priests and priestesses were thought to be doing the bidding of the God’s so they were usually a member of the royal family. When a girl reached a specific age, they would have a hair combing ceremony for them which was the celebration of a girl becoming a woman. After a girl became a woman she would get to choose her own name. In the Incas society the most beautiful and talented girls were sent to a city called Cuzco to become princesses and marry into royal families. Priests in the Incas time were just like the priests we have today, they talk to people about their God’s. The only difference was that their priests could heal the sick. (library.thinkquest.org/18778/inca.htm) In the Incas society there were groups of family. If your family had a lot of land and the man had a lot of wives he would be higher up then the other families, but if you didn’t have much land and you had a few wives you would be a lot lower on the scale then other people. Another way of judging how high up your family was is if you have a lot of cattle and a lot of produce you will be high up, but if you have very little of each or even both, you would be low down. If a woman’s husband had done a great dead for the emperor is another way to get your family higher up in the social standings. The lowest types of families were the farmers and slaves. These groups of people only made just enough money to put food on the table for their families. If they couldn’t put food on the tables they would have to go beg other members of their tribe for food. Only if the other members of their tribe were feeling generous they would get food. After the slaves and farmers there were the people who could supply food for their family but they can’t get a good job. After that type of people came a group of people called the “Ayllus”. This group of people just accepted into a group because of who their family is or was and because of how much land the family owned. The Ayllus people gave enough land to family’s to build a house on and grow food but if they wanted more land they had two ways of getting it, they could either trade for it or just buy more. ([]) When you get born as an Inca the mother would go before a birth and confess pray for an easy delivery. While the wife of the family was having the baby the husband had to fast for the entire time (Kendall, 74). A child would not get their name until a special ceremony called Rutuchico was performed. Rutuchico means the hair cutting ceremony (Kendall, 76). As the kids got older they took on special roles around the house and around the tribe.

Works Cited "Inca Family and Social Life." Inca. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. . "Inca History." Inca History. N.p., n.d. Web. 22 Mar. 2011. . "Inca Religion." Inca. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. . Kendall, Ann. Everyday life of the Incas;. London: Batsford, 1973. Print.

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