HUMAN 1B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Felipe Guaman Poma De Ayala, Inca Mythology, Huayna Capac
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Lectu(cid:396)e 1: the inca con(cid:395)uest of the andes. In the 15th century before the spanish showed up, the incans ruled the andes: quechua language. Incan empire most powerful in 1400s: power of the incan empire. Incas, spanish, u. s. , romans, etc. told themselves about conquest: who tells which story about which conquests. Lecture outline: the inca conquest of the andes: methods of history, time, place, evidence, argument, how the inca empire ruled, administration, hierarchy, military. Interpreting the inca empire: garcilaso de la vega. Methods of history: time & place, time: early 1400s to the early 1500s. Inca empire: spanned over 2,500 miles: encompassed over 10 million inhabitants, cuzco: capital city of incan empire, quechua. Inca moved the foods around the ecological zones: difficult to farm in the andes; it"s dry & cold. Llama figure in british museum: secondary sources: scholarly sources written using the primary sources. Andean people because of their powerful military and their administrative abilities to enforce hierarchy.
