The Inca civilization

THE INCA ORGANIZATION

The Inca civilization was based in a hierarchy. There it was a big difference between social classes which everyone had to respect in the empire. These social classes were formed in a kind of pyramid that where all the power was concentrated on the top while the regular class was the social base. The “Ayllu” was the social base for this organization where everyone was unified by their pattern coincidences. On the top of this civilization was the INCA who was the chief and his family that occupied the highest place in the society. Based on this power the Inca was permitted to have numerous wives. However, to keep the purity of his blood he only could get married with his sister. She was the major spouse well known as “Coya” and between all their kids the Inca could designate the successor who was trained to be the future ruler. His training included public administration and some designations was determined by the Inca. The governor had different subordinates who were called “Orejones” and priests.

As the Incas conquest more territory there were not enough people in the hierarchy to manage all the new territory they conquest so they created a new class of public administrators that were called Incas by privilege. They had the responsibility to manage day to day everything such as business, commerce, government or religion. All of them lived in the Cuzco area and the dialectal to communicate was the Quichua. The “Quipu Camayos” were other kind of commissioners in the hierarchy but the most important occupations were designed to Incas. Jobs such as architects, city planes, engineers, and priests.

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CORREGIR SYNONYMS DE AQUI ABAJO

Going down in the pyramid there it was the labor class such us artisans or craftspeople. This artisans were designated to reserve food and other supplies. This social class has an easier kind of life in compare to the agriculturalists because farmers were expected to work very full time for the Incas, temple or local leaders. In this civiliizaton the artisans had a kind of factories where they used to produce ceramics. To make this ceramics the used to used molds to make a mass production.

Next on the top of the triangle are the farmers. This is somehow the most important social class of this empire that allowed to keep this civilization to live day by day. Most of people of this social class was underprivileged and they did not have education. They were not allowed to live in cities because they had the duty to work the land to support the rest of the population. They used to live in rural areas in very simple houses in windowless huts and worked most of their waking hours. They provided the big surplus of goods to allow the empire and state operating day by day. The Incas

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