How Did The Inca Empire Affect Its Development

The Inca empire was considered an extremely impressive civilization due to how they meticulously planned out and flawlessly executed their plans for the area around them. The geography of the Inca empire greatly affected its development mainly due to the immensely thought out planning and to the building of the Inca Trail, but also to the Urubamba Valley and Machu Picchu. The ancient Inca highway was specifically built to connect every major city of the empire, the four quarters, every province, many food and water sources, places for shelter, and central ecuador to southern chile. The Inca empire could improve its development and expand because of how transportation, communication, and production could thrive with the use of the Inca foot

The goods that were grown by the Incas led to a much more productive economy because they had control over much of the western side of South America. Movement such as cultural diffusion, trade, migration, and warfare a part of the Inca civilization because of the Inca Trail. Since this system of roads covered about 25,000 miles of terrain and connected every major area of this empire, messages and goods could easily be sent and received. This road was very connecting and anyone who wished to use it was probably able to, therefore making trade and migration quite easy. The Inca did have a very wide rule which was beneficial to their economy, but could have made it difficult to control their subjects. The Inca government decided that it would be most productive to be fair to their people since they could not completely control them. This trait was taken advantage of by the Spanish conquistadors, led by Francisco Pizarro, they used the Inca trust within their civilization to attempt to take them