CALENDAR





The Inca calendar was based on the changes of the seasons and the movements of the stars.

The emperor Pachacuti did build some towers in the hills surrounding Cuzco for people, noting the height of the sun between the towers, knew it was the right time to sow his crop.

For the year began with farmers sowing, but according to the official calendar, the year began on December 21, the day which was celebrated one of the biggest festivals dedicated to the sun

ECONOMIC ACTIVITIES















AGRICULTURE allow the alliance between small property and state. The Territory was divided into three parts: one for the sun, one for the INCA and other for the people. In the first and second, the product was devoted to sustainable worship and priests, and the third was the AYLLU which were the same family. each family had its own territory. For each son was increased an amount and for each daughter was increased by half.

HUNTING AND FISHING.
Their weapons were the deep, and La Macana boleadora. Armed with sticks and spears thousands of hunters formed a huge circle that went closer to pick up all the animals in a plain; males killed there, they profited hides and meat was cut into very thin slices. They hunted vicunas.
Fishing was practiced on the coasts and in Lake Titicaca, on rafts that were used since a long time ago in that region and which was called "horses".
Domestication of animals: the Incas raised llamas, alpacas, guinea pigs, dogs and ducks.
The flame was animal cargo and gave them apart from meat and wool.

INDUSTRY. The textiles, metal and pottery were the main industrial arts of the Incas

TRADE. The Incas did not form a village commercial, or knew what it was money. For changes to products with neighboring countries fairs were held in the confines of the rule

amazing skill - INCA CIVILIZATION














ONE OF THE MOST DEVELOPED PRECOLUMBIAN CIVILIZATIONS WAS THE INCA EMPIRE; STRETCHING THROUGH THE HIGHLANDS OF ANDES, IN TODAY´S,ECUADOR,PERU,COLOMBIA,ETC...THE INCA CIVILIZATION WAS OUTSTANDING BECAUSE OF ITS COLOSSAL ARCHIQUECTURE, ITS CITIES WITH PAVED AND REGULAR STREETS, TEMPLES,AGRICULTURAL TERRACES,AND SO ON.

JUST RECENTLY, ANOTHER AMAZING SKILL OF THE INCAS HAS BEEN REVEALED: THEY SUCCESSFULLY PERFORMED TREPANATIONS, SURGERIES AIMED AT REMOVING SMALL PARTS OF THE PATIENT´S SKULL TO TREAT HEAD INJURIES.

TREPANATION SEEMS TO HAVE BEEN USED TO TREAT HEAD INJURIES EXPRERIENCED BY MEN DURING COMBAT. TODAY, THIS SURGERY IS EMPLOYED TO RELIEVE PRESSURE, INDUCED BY FLUID BULDUP CAUSED BY SEVERE HEAD TRAUMA.

THE NEW FINDINGS SHOWS THAT INCAS SURGEONS HAD DEVELOPED A DETAILED KNOWLEDGE OF CRONIAL ANATOMY. INCA HEALERS CARFULLY AVOIDED AREAS OF THE SKULL WHERE CUTTING WOULD BE MORE LIKELY TO CAUSE BRAIN INJURY, BLEEDING, OR INFECTIONS.

THE OPERATION WERE CONDUCTED WITHOUT THE MODERN BENEFITS OF ANESTHESIA AND ANTIBIOTICS, BUT MEDICINAL PLANTS WERE PROBABLY USED. THEY WERE AWARE OF MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF MANY WILD PLANTS INCLUDING COCA AND WILD TABACO. SOMETIMES, THE PATIENT DIED FOR OVERDOSE OF IT. SO IT´S KIND TRAGIC AND CRUEL, IN CASE THE PATIENT DIED DURING THE TRAPANATION SURGERY, THEY REMOVED RECTANGULAR PIECE OF BANE WAS PUT BACK IN ITS PLACE BEFORE THE BODY WAS BURIED. "IT´S ASTANDING THAT (SUCH A LARGE PORCENTAGE) OF THE POPULATION UNDERWENT SKULL SURGERY AND THAT NOT SO MANY SURVIVED"

INCAS CIVILIZATION IS A SIGNIFICANT PART OF OUR GROWTH AS A HUMANITY SOCIETY.natali

FOOD PRESERVATION



Incan civilization contributions were a lot, but one of these was the way of the preservation of food, the weather obstructed that preservation so they needed to invent a way to make their food go on for more time, this civilization couldn’t live without provision, it was vital for the stability of society. The way they preserved food was drying or dehydrating the products. They dried meat exposing it to the sun, they used to dehydrate birds and frogs. They dried Shrimps with rocks and hot sand and its name was anuka. Salty and dry fish was an important source of people who lived in cost, and it served for “trueque”, the trade system. They dehydrated other sea products, they used the “machas” they were used in soups preparation.
A big contribution of incas in terms of gastronomy was the “cochayuyo” or aquatic herb, they used to eat seaweeds. At present the cochayuyo its eaten with “ceviche” and piquant.
They used to dehydrate tubercles too, they were dried at sun and they get sweet so they were called cahui. The most difficult tubercle of dehydrating was potato.
by MARCELA