SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATIONS

Ayllus

The core of the Inca Empire

Social structure

Territorial structure

An old man lead the community

Suyoyuc Apu

The Inca Empire was made up for four sucers of its lineage

Land distribution

Monarchical and paternalistic

No private property existed

Divided into

Lands of the Sun

Lands of the Inca

The lands of the Town

Engineering

Technologies adapted to the environment

Important sample of this development

Cusco (in present-day Peru)

Machu Picchu

Bridges

They built five models of bridges

Pendants

Of logs

Of stones

Oroya

Floating bridges

Roads

System Capac Ñan

Is several meters wide and thousands of kilometers long.

They built a stone base

They made gutters for the water to drain.

Irrigation channels

Used for bringing water to land

Dams

Aqueducts

Channeling of rivers

AGRICULTURE

It was their economy base

It had no commercial purpose but subsistence

Incas cultivated about 70 species vegetables

Corn

Chili

Cotton

Tomato

Quinoa

Important agricultural techniques

They built canals to carried the water to the platforms

They used fertilizers

They built terraces

Metallurgy and goldsmith

Gold was property of the gods

was for ceremonial use

They worked with

Silver

Bronze

Copper.

Used techniques to shaping and molds for complex objects.

They did riverbank mining

Manufacture

Characterized by mass and standardized production

Characteristics of ceramics tones and cuttlefish

Purple

Orange

White

Black

Red

Form of geometric designs

Bars

Rhombus

Triangles

Circles

Textiles

They express the thought

The Chacana symbolizes

The four “suyos”, from the Tahuantinsuyo.

They were defined by geometric shapes

The manufacture process

Fiber

Yarn

Dyeing