Incas Architecture

The incas architecture create the most amazing constructions with stone ever build before, it was needed a huge level of discipline, an organization system that has no match with any organization system ever exist before and an unbelievable advance inca technology.

The archaeologist have evidence that the inca engineers had prepare maquettes of the future constructions, made it with wood, clay or stone, then they use the maquettes like a construction plan; Ones the idea and measures of the building were confirm, the incas architecture engineers order the stones to be cut from the stone production mines.

The incas cut the stones, by cracking it and introducing slim pieces of wood, then they poor water in the wood, the wood absorb the water and expand, so the crack in the stone gets bigger, repeating this process several times, was enough to crack the stones in rectangular shapes following the engineers request.

The incas architecture techniques, to create such stone perfect fitting was quite simple, they make a clay full size shape of the stone that was need it, so the incas carving stone masters had a perfect example, on real size of what they need to do, this identical copy was crucial, because the stone must fit perfectly the first time that they will place it in the wall.

Simultaneously more inca people, following the orders of the incas architecture engineers, went to the area of construction and settle a solid ground for the walls, after that the carving stone master team start to work, some investigators believe that they were divided in three types.

The first team cut the big pieces of the stones, the second team clear up the large imperfections of the stones and finally the last team polish the stone with sand; It sounds simple, but you need to imagine hundreds of thousands of indians working with tools made from stone or copper; That should be an incredible working site view.

When the stones where done, in the right shaped and polished with the quality that the incas architecture engineers order, the force team to move the stones to the construction site was call; The men from this force team, must had look like Arnold Schwarzenegger in “Conan” the movie, because they must have an over human strength to move this stones and remember they did not knew the wheel.

The inca education teach the indians, that it was an honor to touch the holy stones, some investigators believe that were competitions among the strongest men of each community, because only the best ones were part of this force team, you could say that those competitions were the equivalent of today olympic games.

The incas place the stones in rails of wood to conserve the stones as perfect as possible, then they were move to the working site; The biggest stones were place first, then the workers build ramps around this stones, then they settle the ground of the ramps and slide the smaller stones to the top of the big stones; After the walls were finish all the ramps were remove and the working site was clean up.

The incas architecture logistics need it to organize food supply, tools manufacture, houses to sleep for the workers, build special roads for the stones transfers, etc; All this matters make the logistics so complex, that will be literally impossible to repeat; The inca government conquer and master the engineering, organization and discipline more than any other culture of the world.

The workers were coming from every where of the kingdom, they used the best roads system ever build before, it is even better than the roads build by roman empire; The roads were going around mountains and crossing rivers, with houses for resting and sleeping, all of them with food and supplies for the travelers; Today we know this roads with the name of inca trail.

The longest of this roads goes from the bottom of Colombia, down crossing the Andes, ending in the south of Chile, most of this roads are still in use today; The Peruvian people of the andes, still use them to transport their products and visit other communities; The road communication system is the master piece of the incas architecture.

The incas had a mail system that was compose by the fastest runners of the kingdom, they were call Chasqui; The system was quite simple, one chasqui pick up the information from the origin, then he start to run towards a station, ones he arrive, he pass the information to the chasqui that is waiting for him, so the new chasqui can start to run towards the next station, and so on until the message arrive to the inca king itself.

The distance from one station to another station was approximately 200 km; Now you need to imagine this man running thought mountains, crossing rivers, running at maximum speed at 4000 mt over the sea level, keeping in his bag the information in the shape of Quipus; This men were mega athletes and that is why, been a chasqui was a privilege and a highly rewarded job in the incas society.

The andenes are another remarkable achievement of the incas architecture, the andenes are huge stairs on the hills, where the incas build rectangle areas with stones, then they fill up this rectangles with fertile ground and set up an internal irrigation system; The andenes are the direct responsible of the amazing development of the inca agriculture.

Some andenes are still in use today, producing potatoes or corn, some of this inca constructions are more than 600 years old; It is a fact that the inca culture not only master the stone carving, the incas architecture hydraulics engineering was so advance, that they were capable to bring fresh water from rivers that were hundreds of kilometers away.

You must be asking your self?, How they did it?, how they could be so obedient society?, the answer is cruel and simple; It happened because the unbreakable three laws Ama suwa (Do not steal), Ama qilla (Do not be lazy) and Ama llulla (Do not lie); This three laws were enough to grow into the most organize society ever exist, easy to manipulated and extremely obedient to the incas architecture engineers.

Some investigators believe that in the inca daily life, the indians use this laws as a hello and good bye; For example, if you are in front of an indian, he will tell you do not steal, do not be lazy and do not lie and you should answer him: do not steal, do not be lazy and do not lie for you too.

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