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Inca
Civilization
The
inca civilization is one of six original civilization of the human kind
history; The list start with the Egyptian, who were the first
mesopotamian civilization, the Aegean, the Sinic, the Chinese empire,
the Mayas in central america and the
incas
in south america; All this
civilization had one thing in common, they are all originals, they have
conquer other cultures but they did not born from other cultures
mix.
20,000 years ago, small tribes and human settlements live in the
Peruvian territory; The inca civilization has barely 1000 years of
history, since the point of birth as a simple inca
tribe on the heart
of the andes, to the magnificent inca empire that we know today; The
incas expansion start with Pachacutec Inca Yupanqui, he was the ninth
inca ruler (1438-1472); He expanded the inca empire from the valley of
Cuzco to the north, up to Ecuador and Colombia; To the south up to
Chile, Bolivia and part of Argentina.
During the inca civilization expansion, it was use, the voluntary
assimilation and bloody battles against cultures that resist the
conquest; There are two versions: One in which describe the inca
rulers
as generous great man and another, as fierce cruel warriors, highly
skilled in the diplomatic blackmail; It is likely, that the behavior of
the incas in each case was conditioned, by the attitude of the people
who were to be incorporated into the inca empire.
The only culture that could not be assimilated by the inca
civilization, was the Uros culture, they are original from the lands
around the Titicaca lake; The uros did not follow the inca ways of
work, basically they were lazy; The incas could not kill them, because
the incas were warriors not assassins, so they cast them away; At the
end, the entire uros community end up living on artificial islands, in
the Titicaca lake.
Few people know that the inca civilization had a writing system that
identifying one number to a sound or word, using the Quipu they could
write with numbers poetry, tales and history; The incas had a clear
understanding of the solar system, they knew that the earth move around
the sun before Galileo; The incas average death age was 100 years old
and the Amautas, that were the knowledge holders of the kingdom, live
and teach in the inca school in Cuzco up to 120 years old.
All the beauty of the inca
empire was destroy by the greed
of the
spaniards, in the search for gold and silver the spaniards destroy
temples, burn all the quipus from the temples, witch is equal to burn
books of history; All traditions, culture and pride was rip off from
the heart of the incas; The last inca survivors, collect all the gold
from all the kingdom and took it deep into the amazon jungle, hiding it
from the spaniards, so then the el Dorado legend was born.
The entire world believe that Machu Picchu ruins, jewel of the inca
civilization was discover by Hiram Bingham in 1911; What about, if I
tell you that the Peruvian government has maps, records and documents
that show the existence of Machu Picchu since 1868, by the way the real
name of Machu Picchu ruins is Huacas del Inca; In 1871 the first
foreigner visit the ruins, he was Augusto R. Bearns, he was a German
married to a woman of the Angulo family in Cuzco, the Angulo family
knew the location of the ruins and took him for an excursion.
When Bearns saw the ruins, he wants to take all the treasures out of
Peru, but the Angulo family did not help him any more; The German
explorer found investors, create a company call Huacas del Inca
exports, all to finance the search for the Huacas del Inca; He even
sign a contract with the Peruvian government, paying them 10 percent of
anything that he will find; But until today there is no proof that he
found the Huacas del Inca by himself.
The Machu Picchu ruins, jewel of the inca civilization was visited by:
Göhring Hermann in 1873, Antonio Raimondi in 1878, Wiener
Charles in 1880, who steal 10 tons of an incredible collection of inca
antiques that helped him to found the Museum of Ethnography in Paris;
The list continues with Agustín Lizárraga in
1902, Markham Clements from The Royal Geographical Society of England
in 1910; And many others that has been lost in history. Now you know
the true.
The inca civilization treasures were the reason of its destruction,
many people has fight, more than 8 million people has die, the essence
of the incas
society has been mix with
foreigner blood from all
continents, but still there; The incas culture still alive, the
greatness of this people, their knowledge and wisdom, still in the eyes
of every single descendant of this wonderful civilization.
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