HUMAN 1BS Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Titu Cusi, Casta, Dogs In Warfare
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Inca (2 meanings); conquest as an ideological distortion of the establishment of a colony. Colonialism -- taking of land as an administrative unit w/out granting the ppl their full rights of participation in the empire -lazo. Colonialism -- a negotiation among multiple actors over econ resource, cultural capital, and political force. -o"toole. Had to be handmade so the ppl that wore it were powerful. Militarily pressured ppl to join the empire. If resisted the ppl would be conquered (militarily) and then relocated. Very good bureaucrats kept track of everything by keeping a khipu -- a numerical record of what was happening in the empire. Primary -- a first hand account of what happened. Secondary -- analyzing and adding commentary to a primary source. Indigenous nobility: kurakakuna, kuraka, cacique, curaca, native lord. Called the spaniards viracochas bc they thought they were children of heaven and as it were divine, just as others attributed divine status the.
