Inca Empire (1 janv. 1300 – 1 janv. 1572)

Description:

- Andes mountains
- State run trade, state store houses held all types of materials
- quipos: knotted cords used in recording numerical data
- Inca elite welcomed Spanish invaders as liberators and settled down w/ them
- Dispute between rival contenders for Inca throne helped invaders recruit allies
- Ayulu: self sustaining social units
- Much larger than Mexica
- Elaborate road system
- More bureaucratic than Mexica
- Made efforts to assimilate conquered peoples: Forced to learn Inca language, had to acknowledge Inca gods, Mit'a
- Mit'a: everyone had to eventually work for state: kind of like tax
- Gender parallelism

-Spanish victory Inca Empire destroyed
-Last Inca emperor Atahualpa executed
-Resistance broke out but ultimately destroyed
-Former Inca lands incorporated into the Spanish Empire

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