Inca People

The inca people was clearly divided in three types; First, the royal family, that was compose by the sapan inca or inca king, his wife name the Colla and his sons and daughters, only the boys could have the right to be kings; There were two types of royal families, the Hanan dynasty and the Hurin dynasty, this two families lineage are as old as the inca culture it self; Both families were in constant political confrontations for the power of the kingdom.

The second type of inca people will be nobles call Panakas, they were divided in two types of nobles, the first was the blood related nobles, that were all sons and daughters of the secondary inca king wifes and all inca king concubines as well; The second type of Panakas were the people that earn the right to be nobles by their abilities, work or for a remarkable service to the kingdom, among this type of nobles were the Quipucamayocs or holders of the knowledge of the quipus, kind of mayor accountants of our days, the Amautas, kind of master of knowledge and priest of the inca religion.

The third and final type of inca people was the common citizen, with four types of people: First, the Hatunruna, that was a person that live in farms with agriculture activities, small communities and out side of the cities; The second type is the Llactaruna, who is the person that lives inside the cities with activities like metallurgy, textiles, pottery, etc; The third type of citizen was the Mitimaes, kind of professional colonizer, this people was move into recently conquered cultures to make easy the adaptation process into the incas way of living.

The final kind of inca people was the Yanaconas, this men women and children were taken from conquered tribes that make fierce resistance to the incas kingdom, most of the yanaconas live and serve to the royal family and important authorities; Been a yanacona was a punishment for been resistant to the inca daily life way of living, the slavery practice by the incas was not common and it was apply in rare occasions, it happened mainly during the main incas culture expansion.

The inca people organization pyramid is as follow: The inca king is at the top, under him 4 Apus that were the rulers of the four regions of the kingdom, this Apus have another three sub Apus; This 16 men all together were call the Imperial Council; Each sub apu have a lot of leaders of 10,000 families call Huno camayocs, each huno camayoc have 10 leaders of 1000 families call Huran camayoc, each Huran camayoc have 10 leaders of 100 families call Pachaca camayoc and finaly each Pachaca camayoc have 10 leaders of 10 families call Chunca camayoc, the final family cell was call the ayllu, each ayllu could have from 150 to 600 people each.

The pyramidal organization of the inca people was complicated to maintain; Imagine the incas society with teachers, architectures, agriculture, mail system, hydraulics constructions, temples, religious people, systems to collect food, transport it, dry it and store it, collection and re distribution of pottery, clothing, shoes, weapons, etc; Investigators estimate that it was need it about 1331 government workers to administrate and control 10,000 people.

The main and majority population were the Hatunrunas, most of them dedicate their lives to farming, the advance inca farming use the hillsides with terraces to maximize the production and irrigation of the crops; Smaller groups of Hatunrunas dedicate their life to hunt the alpaca and process their meat, dehydrating it for easy transport and storage, the fur was use for textiles and the bones for common domestic utensils, nothing from this animal was waste.

The inca people were docile and easy to manage people, they were the result of generations follow the: Ama Sua (do not steal), Ama Llulla (do not lie) and Ama Quella (do not be lazy), this laws were simple and effective; The incas did not have prisons for the people that broken the laws, they were simply kill immediately and no questions ask; They were merciless laws but allow the incas to develop a level of organization and discipline never seen before.

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, but the incas reached a level of organization and technology that can not be match with any other culture of the world, so until today still the discussion of where the incas culture should be place in history.

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