Emerson's+Work

Time Travel Agency introductory paragraph

My group has Emerson, Jomel, and Darien. We have chosen the Incas. I will be doing “what.” This includes what their culture is like, what they eat, what they wear, what kind of jobs they have, what their religion is, and what kind of government they have. The reason why we chose our civilization is because the Incas are like the Aztecs because they have a lot of information on them and they would be easy to research.

By: Emerson

Governm﻿ent

The Incas where located in modern Peru. The Incas existed from 1438 to 1533. The Incas Empire was taken over by the Spanish and ended their reign. The Inca Government was also a huge bank that collected information and items. The Incas did not have any information of writing words but instead they used a intricate system of numbers. Every number that they used had a sound that went with it. The Khipukamayuq of the Ayllu kept track of everyone who died, who was getting married, and who was born and the progress of the crops. After the Khipukamayuq collected all of the information he would send it to the Inca king. The Khipukamayuq also keeps a record of how people are being punished and why they are being punished. At the hierarchy of the government there is the Apus each Apu has three sub Apus helpers and there is four regions containing one Apu and three other Apus helpers in each region. All of these “Apus crews” together make up the Imperial council. The imperial council was the most important part of the Inca government because they have an update every two days on the local news and important events. The reason why it would take two days is because the messengers had to spread the information over 2,600,000 square kilometres. The king also known as the sapa would usually marry his sister and choose one of their sons to be the king after the current sapa died. The sapa would speak to the army Marshalls to develop plans on which province to take over next. The Incas had amazing stone structures and to this day it is still a mystery on how they crafted them with so much precision. They also had extremely long roads which they made with a lot of attention to detail and quality. About every kilometre on the roads there was a small resting house so that travelers could rest if it was raining or cold they could also feed there llamas, eat, and sleep. In the Inca government it required all of the members of a family to live together and do everything together that includes harvesting crops, tilling the land, planting seeds and hunting and gathering. There was no such thing as going to a big city and living on your own, you had to stay with your family your whole life. Without the permission of the governor no one was allowed to hunt on the sapa’s land. (Kendall, 155). The Incas did not marry people if they did not have to. If a guy wants to marry a girl the guy has to ask the girl’s family and they will give him permission to marry her if they approve of him. Because the Incas had a king or sapa all of the people who payed taxes had to support the empire and do work for a few months out of the year. This system was called Mita. The Mita system was the most efficient system of that time period. For every town that had about one hundred households there was one labour official that decided when certain family members worked and when certain family members were done working. While some family members were working the other family members tended to the crops and sold them to the town. Every member of the family worked except for younge children or the elderly. The women in the families had to produce a certain amount of clothe or else they would either have to give a certain amount of their grain harvest or pay the government off. The Inca country had eighty provinces. Each province had about twenty thousand households. When the empire gained a city threw the army taking over the city they did not kill or demote the local labour official they let him stay in control as long as they followed all of the laws set by the Imperial Council. Another job that the labour officials had to do was keep the storehouses stocked with grain and tools and clothe. They also had to direct the locals to repair any bridges that where damaged by rockslides, floods or wear. In the Inca society there was no such thing as money for transaction of work the labour official in the area paid the villagers in food and clothes. Even though one of the jobs that the government required you to do was mining which they mined alot of gold and silver they only used the gold and silver for jewellery and armour for the sapa and his bride.

Inca conclusion The Incas were a very powerful empire that had a very efficient system. They had the most complex and secure government and bank for that time period. The reason why it was so secure was because it was so complex. They had their own language that consisted of numbers and every number made a sound. To this day we still do not know how to read this language. The Incas were the smartest civilization for that time period because they were conservative and they did not have any theft because everything worked out perfectly and if someone did steal they where killed.