MARRIAGE


In Inca society was expected that everyone got married with the exception of the Virgins of the Sun. The headman, one man, selected the couples to be married. Normally were from the same community and the same social class. It was not good to marry strangers because it was very important to maintain the purity of the breed, especially at the highest social levels.

The marriage was part of the traditional customs. Normally men had 25 years and women 18 years. It was also important that they were in the same physical condition.

There was not much choices of people to get married. It was more an economic union than union of love. They had so many things to worry about making in the community that there was no time to think about compatibility. Sometimes for good luck couples found love, but it was not common. His job was to have more children to be able to have more hands to work with crops and tissues.

All marriages were celebrated together. Several times in the year all couples met to get married and had a celebration full of rituals. One very important change was to strip the quipus. They put th strips which indicated that the couple was married. This was very important because it was the way to maintain records of everyone in society. They also add more strips when a new child born.

A house and a new land was given to the new couple. So, they could think about start a new family to work in the production of crops and tissues.diana

The Incas’ Family



In the Inca community, the family was not an independent nucleus, but an integral part. There was a man responsible for ten families. He had to regulate the distribution of land and the production of food for all families. Above him there was another man in charge of a hundred families who had to report. He also had to calculate how much food was given to the gods as a form of taxes and sacrifices.

There was a division of work between men and women. The men were working hard to move the land to enable women to sow the seeds for the crops. The children pull up the weed and scare small animals and birds that tried to eat the seeds.

The interdependence between the neighbors was something very important. Normally the ten families from which a man was in charged lived together and were usually part of the same family, always helping with food and crops.

The society was very hierarchical with many levels within levels. It was very difficult to leave a low level to a higher because it was defined at birth.

A complete education was very important in society, not only in the language, history and religion, but also physically. There was much emphasis on martial arts and the correct and accurate use of weapons. Therefore armies were very powerful, because everyone knew how to fight and defend well.

The moral norm of the Inca was: -- Do not be thief -- Do not be liar -- Do not be idle
the idea was to have a collective responsibility and obedience. So it was very important that everyone help and think in the entire community and not just themselves, working together for everyone. Individuality was not a good sight.

The basic social unit was the family. Normally in the community lived three generations: children, parents and grandparents all of them worked together to produce food, build houses and tissues. They lived near each other and the lands to cultivate were also together in order to help easier.

The head of the house was the married man. He was in charge of the production of food, crops, clothing and textiles. He was, in a lower level, as the man in charge of ten families inasmuch as their responsibilities, but only for his family. He Also distributed other needs like food and clothing to the others. A ration of food and clothing were given to the children, they thought it would help them to learn responsibility.

When a couple got married, they did not have to pay taxes for a year, while saving to start their own family with their own children. It was a way to secure that they could established and do not carry with many jobs later. Grandparents pay less tax when they were older because it was believed that they were already weak and could not produce as much as before, and also they had given much to the community while they were young and strong.

The family was a very important production unit.natali

RITUALS

The Incas were probably one of the most religious cultures in history. Nearly every single aspect of their lives involved the worship of some sort of idol. They worshipped through prayers, dances and sacrifices. Sacrifices were the most important form of worship.

The Incas sacrificed a wide variety of things, ranging from objects they created, to crops they grew, to livestock, to their own children. They type of sacrifice they made depended on the importance of the god they gift was for and the seriousness of the situation they were involved in. human sacrifice was only done for very especial occasions and in crisis situation.

Their sacrifice were very specific had to be followed exactly to change the order of a ceremony would mean that the gods would not be pleased and would bring more problems. At a ceremony there would be much drinking and dancing that were part of the ritual. Sacrifice would be accompanied by prayers as well. Like the sacrifice, prayers had to be recited in a specific manor; there were many prayers for many situations.

All these sacrifices and prayers were offered to the most important things in the Inca culture, their deities. Incas were incredibly idolatrous; they idolized a wide variety of things, from dirt to the sun. The Incas did have a hierarchy of gods, the top being viracocha, or some times called pachaya or “creator of the world”. He created the light and the dark, the earth and the see.

It was an amazing religious culture.

GEOGRAPHICAL LOCATION


incas lived in the coast, the mountains, formed by ridges, valleys and plateaus of the Andes, in Perú.These areas are conducive to the cultivation of maize, potatoes, coca, and quinoa.
The land near the coast are a dry desert. In the north, the plants bloom only for a short period of time. However, crossing the desert, many small rivers that spring from the Andes crossing the fertile valleys.