Inca Tribe

The incas culture born in the 1100 A.D.; The inca tribe born in 1000 B.C., the Huatanay valley witch is the real name of the valley of Cuzco, had been witness of more than 2000 years of evolution from the first nomads that walk this lands, crossing the very first settlements of people, it has been centuries of invasions, wars and survival struggle, that end up with the very first social cell that centuries after will became the inca culture.

The Peruvian archaeologist has been testing bones and ceramics with carbon 14 for many years, trying to put together the puzzle of the inca tribe past; Today most of the archaeologist are agree that, the very first sedentary settlement of people in the Cuzco valley were the Markawallas, word that split in marka, that means town and wallas, that means mountains, this settlement is consider by the archaeologist, like the very first inca people.

The markawallas, who were the very first inca tribe, specialize in agriculture and hunting small animals, they develop in the 1000 B.C, about three kilometers from the city of Cuzco, it had been found rustic pottery with geometrical stylized and zigzag shapes, this is a clear characteristic of the incas culture; Analyzing their pottery we can conclude that, their religion practice was worshiping the jaguars and the lightning, as well it is possible to affirm that they practice the sacrifice of llamas, alpacas and vicuñas.

The markawallas evolve into the second oldest inca tribe, they were the chanapatas 800 B.C., they improve their agriculture techniques and start to domesticated guinean pigs and llamas; This tribe was the first one that base its economy in the agriculture, developing the very first agriculture mass production for all the individuals of the tribe, creating the very first sense of a primitive Ayllu, word that in the future will mean, the basic social cell of the incas culture.

The chanapatas grow and develop until the 350 A.D., the investigators can not determine what culture live in the Cuzco valley from the 350 to the 600 A.D., they know that there were people living in the area, but they can not determine if they still were the chanapatas or a different tribe; What they do know is that in the 600 A.D. the Qotakalli tribe take over the valley, they were the very first tribe that implanted a system of region states division.

The 750 A.D. was a terrible time in the inca tribe history, because the valley of Cuzco was conquest by the Wari people, the waris were not a tribe, they were a full develop culture born in the north coast of Peru, they own practically all the Peruvian coast line and part of the andes; The Wari culture develop religious centers, cities and a simple road system, that we will know in the future as the inca trail.

The Wari culture exist from the 500 to 1200 A.D, during the years of its decadence in the 1100 A.D., the survivors and already strong inca tribe, fight against them and expel them from the Cuzco valley; This is the moment in history, where the inca culture was born, it is not clear what happened next, but the first step of the creation of the future inca empire was done.

The inca tribe has a second great culture that influences them, they were the Tiahunaco culture, some investigators believe that the Tiahunaco culture is the mother of all the pre incas cultures, because they exist from the 1500 B.C. until the 1200 A.D., their territory was from the Titicaca lake, part of Bolivia, south tip of the Peruvian territory and the north area of Chile, they develop great constructions, astronomical knowledge, they were the first ones to use copper for weapons and they master the agriculture.

From the 500 to 1200 A.D., the Wari culture and the Tiahunaco culture live together, exchanging knowledge and culture; Surprisingly both cultures collapse practically at the same time, it is not clear if the growing inca tribe, future to became inca culture, has something to do with the destruction of this two great civilizations; The fact is that the first inca people use the Wari and the Tiahunaco culture as examples, to create the great inca empire that we know today.

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