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Inca
Culture
The
real name of the inca culture is the Quechua culture; Because inca was
the name of the king, the emperor or supreme authority of the kingdom,
the king was known as well as the sapan inca; Their language was the
Quechua and based in the name of the language that they spoke, the real
name of this culture should be, the Quechua culture; The original way
to spell Quechua was, Queswa.
The Queswa culture or inca culture for us, born in the 1100 A.D., as a
simple inca
tribe,
where everything belong
to the inca king, work for
the kingdom was obligatory and one third of everything that you have
has to be given to the inca king; The inca government re distribute all
this materials all over the kingdom, providing food to the hungry,
clothing to the people that need it, health, agriculture technology,
hydraulics and all necessary things to improve the living conditions of
the families that work for the inca king.
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, hunger and all his basic necessities were guarantee
by the inca government; The inca
agriculture technology, the
great
administration and the evolve incas society, were the reason why, it
was so quickly accepted by other small tribes around them.
The success of the inca culture was because the incas keep a
reciprocity agreement with the tribes that will be add to the inca
kingdom; It mean that the incas respect the traditions, possessions,
religion and even authorities of the tribes that will be part of them;
The tribes assume the compromise to respect the inca
ruler as their
king, adapt to the new laws and religion, learn the quechua language
and be willing to receive new knowledge, that would enable them to
overcome poverty and sustain a prosperous stable economy.
The inca culture introduced the ideology that work was required because
it was a form of welfare and happiness, as well as being sacred; The
incas culture was one of the first cultures to practice the social
welfare, because most of the food that was send to the inca king, had a
dehydration treatment and store in Tambos, kind of store towers for dry
food; The tambos were strategically place all over the kingdom to
quickly help the people in case of natural disasters; Belong to the
inca kingdom was synonymous of social security and stability.
The incas had three laws: Ama Sua (do not steal), Ama Llulla (do not
lie) and Ama Quella (do not be lazy); The three laws were the pillars
of a strict, moral and discipline culture; We have records of other
nine secondary crimes, that in most of the case were punish with the
death penalty; Though in some case a severe warning was apply and if
the crime was committed again, the law was apply and the person was
kill immediately.
The inca culture secondary crimes were: crimes of status (trying to
replace local authorities or violating its authority), against majesty
(attempt to injure the god sun or the nobility), against religion
(worship more the local god than the incas
gods),
against the
administration (not respect court rulings, evading military service),
against the duties of function (receiving bribes, favors treatment to
your family, not strictly enforcing the inca laws).
Against the charge (not to work the land allocated to the Sun, the inca
king and religious parties), against property (ownership of livestock,
clothes or other property that belong to others) and against life and
health (murder, adultery, lack of care and cleaning of your home).
The authorities of the inca culture force the population to have the
door of their homes open during the day time, because at any time an
inca authority could pass and supervise if any of the inca laws or the
secondary crime laws were broken; Even that this laws sounds terrible,
the incas try to bring a message of peace and positive example of
culture, the incas culture bring stability and security during all
their life, the immediate benefits and the social context allowed the
incas preaches to be apprehended and have easy acceptance.
The inca culture born in 1100 and end in 1533 A.D., but only became the
empire that we know during the last 130 to 200 years before its
destruction; During it expansion occupied effectively about
2´600,000 Km2 and had cultural influence in more than
4´000,000 km2; There is not clear statistics of how many
people live under the incas rule, but it is believe that during the
maximum expansion, they were about 9 million people, thought some
archaeologist talk about a surprisingly 32 million people.
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