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by Anahi Moreta 2 years ago

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SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATIONS

The Inca Empire was a highly organized society with complex territorial and social structures. Its economy was primarily agrarian, with sophisticated agricultural techniques such as terrace farming, canal construction, and the use of fertilizers to support subsistence farming.

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATIONS

SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATIONS

Textiles

The manufacture process
Dyeing
Yarn
Fiber
They were defined by geometric shapes
The Chacana symbolizes
The four “suyos”, from the Tahuantinsuyo.
They express the thought

Manufacture

Form of geometric designs
Circles
Triangles
Rhombus
Bars
Characteristics of ceramics tones and cuttlefish
Red
Black
White
Orange
Purple
Characterized by mass and standardized production

Metallurgy and goldsmith

They did riverbank mining
Used techniques to shaping and molds for complex objects.
They worked with
Copper.
Bronze
Silver
Gold was property of the gods
was for ceremonial use

AGRICULTURE

Important agricultural techniques
They built terraces
They used fertilizers
They built canals to carried the water to the platforms
Incas cultivated about 70 species vegetables
Quinoa
Tomato
Cotton
Chili
Corn
It had no commercial purpose but subsistence
It was their economy base

Irrigation channels

Used for bringing water to land
Channeling of rivers
Aqueducts
Dams

Roads

They made gutters for the water to drain.
They built a stone base
Is several meters wide and thousands of kilometers long.
System Capac Ñan

Bridges

They built five models of bridges
Floating bridges
Oroya
Of stones
Of logs
Pendants

Engineering

Important sample of this development
Machu Picchu
Cusco (in present-day Peru)
Technologies adapted to the environment

Land distribution

Divided into
The lands of the Town
Lands of the Inca
Lands of the Sun
No private property existed
Monarchical and paternalistic

Ayllus

The Inca Empire was made up for four sucers of its lineage
An old man lead the community
Suyoyuc Apu
The core of the Inca Empire
Territorial structure
Social structure