History of The Incas

The history of the incas is way more complex of what the people believe, even today with the power of the internet, only very few people have a blur understating of what the inca empire was; In this page you will find all that you need to know about the incas.

The inca civilization has barely 1000 years of history, since the point of birth as a simple tribe in the heart of the Andes, to the magnificent inca empire that we know today.

Here you will find interesting aspects of the history of the incas, like the inca religion, that had approximate 6000 priest distributed all over the kingdom, where the Huillac Uma or supreme priest was the equivalent of the pope of our days.

The model of the inca culture was clear and simple, it was a free of hunger society, with peace among the people and where the Hatunruna or standard citizen, knew that him and his family were protected of natural disasters.

The inca people was part of a estrange mixture of socialism, imperialism and generalize brain wash, that is quite difficult to catalog, because they reach only the copper as the stronger metal, so they should be qualify as a copper age civilization.

The inca mythology is quite contradictory, because explain the incas origins in several different ways, we must understand that the history of the incas is based in oral traditions.

The real name of the inca empire should be, the Tawantinsuyo empire, because tawantinsuyo was the real name of the nation of the incas; The word tawantinsuyo is a short and complex explanation of how the incas kingdom was divide.

The incas culture born in the 1100 A.D., but very few people know that the very first inca tribe born in 1000 B.C. in the Huatanay valley.

Some investigators believe that the incas had 91 inca rulers; Though other investigators affirm that were more than 1050 inca kings, since the beginnings of the incas culture.

The main inca god of the incas was the Apu Kon Ticse Wiracocha; Though there is several different ways to call it and to spell his name, still is the same god; As a matter of fact many old Peruvian pre inca cultures has a god with the same characteristics than him.

We have writing and the inca government had the Quipu; We need to clear our mind of the pre concept of, writing equal civilization, the incas create complex ways to account goods and record events, with a tool that was created to be a calculator.

One of the most fascinating mysteries of the history of the incas is contain in their symbols, the inca culture had hundreds of inca symbols, most of them were created for war, religion and astrology, but the one that deserve all our attention is the Chakana inca or inca cross.

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