Empire of the Inca (Volume 69) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)

Brundage, Burr Cartwright

ISBN 10: 0806119241 / ISBN 13: 9780806119243

Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma., 1985

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Softcover 1985 edition. Text and covers in fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean.(396 pages).

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• Titolo: Empire of the Inca (Volume 69) (The Civilization of the American Indian Series)
• Editore: University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1985
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0806119241
• ISBN 13: 9780806119243
• Rilegatura: Soft cover
• Condizione: Fine
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Riassunto

Examines the major factors responsible for the cultural achievements of the Inca Empire

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A great account of a classic Indian civilization, this book tells the story of a people who, hatched in a small pocket of the Peruvian sierra, rose in the end to become the architects and chief beneficiaries of an empire they called Tahuantinsuyo, the Four Quarters. Tahuantinsuyo, with Cuzco as its highly respected seat of government and the official residence of the ruling Inca, was a sacred empire. Its territorial aggrandizement was a function of its religious mission, while, reciprocally, its thirst for power dictated what were to be the lineaments of its most holy beliefs. When the sense of divine mission began to fail, the empire incontinently collapsed.But the history of the Inca Empire was more than just a prelude to the Spanish conquest under Francisco Pizarro in 1532. The swift creation of the remarkable state is important in that it is in no way related to the traditions of the European and Asiatic empires. Further, even though the Incas were a people few in numbers, they succeeded in creating a highly bureaucratic organization exceedingly rich in religious ceremonialism.The Incas, dwelling in the highlands of modern Peru, were consolidated by Manco Capac perhaps as early as the eleventh century. Under the rule of a despotic head, known as the Inca, the empire was expanded by Pachacuti, Topa Inca, Huayna Capac, and others up to Atahualpa, until it extended from northern Ecuador to central Chile.The story of this expansion and the description of all the Incas' life, from their religious beliefs and rituals to a discussion of their engineering prowess in their still-existent Royal Road, is fascinating reading.