The Inca Empire was possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century. It is political and administrative structure. It was the most sophisticated found among the native peoples in the Americas. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas incorporated a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean Mountains, using conquest and peaceful assimilation, among other methods. This essay be about the Inca Empire. Like political, The people, and last the civilization.
The Inca politics were very sophisticated in the 16th century. The Inca government was called the Tawantinsuyu. It was a monarchy ruled by a single leader called the Sapa Inca. Sapa Inca was the emperor of all the Incas or sole leader. He was the most powerful
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The Inca Empire also known as the Inca Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century. The Inca Empire was unique in that it lacked many features associated with civilization in the Old World. Notable features of the Inca Empire include its monumental architecture, especially stonework, extensive road network reaching all corners of the empire, finely-woven textiles, use of knotted strings (quipu) for record keeping and communication, agricultural innovations in a difficult environment, and the organization and management fostered or imposed on its people and their labor. The Incan economy has been described in contradictory ways by scholars: as "feudal, slave, socialist (here one may choose between socialist paradise or socialist tyranny. The Incan economy has been described in contradictory ways by scholars: as "feudal, slave, socialist (here one may choose between socialist paradise or socialist tyranny. Above all, they lacked a system of writing... Despite these supposed handicaps, the Incas were still able to construct one of the greatest imperial states in human …show more content…
The Inca Empire (called Tawantinsuyu in modern spelling, Aymara and Quechua, or Tahuantinsuyu in old spelling Quechua.) You should study it. The official language of Tahuantinsuyu was Quechua, although over seven hundred local languages were spoken. The Inca leadership encouraged the worship of their gods, the foremost of which was Inti, the sun god.The empire was divided into four provinces (suyu), whose corners met at the empire 's capital, Cusco (Qosqo). Tawantin means "a group of four," so the Quechua name for the empire, Tawantinsuyu, means "the four provinces." The English term Inca Empire is derived from the word Inca, which was the title of the emperor. Today the word Inca still refers to the emperor, but can also refer to the people or the civilization, and is used as an adjective when referring to the beliefs of the people or the artifacts they left behind. The Inca Civilization was wealthy and well-organized, with generally humane treatment of its people, including the vanquished. The empire was really a federal system. It took the Spanish just eight years to all but destroy the richest culture in the Americas, replacing it with a much less just system. Indeed, it has been argued that the Inca government allowed neither miserly nor unemployment, as production, consumption, and demographic distribution reached almost mathematical