1. HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America SFC Fall 2013 Week 6

2. Today’s Agenda Day 11 Attendance South American Civilization: The Incas 1.Religion (Day 10) 2.Architecture (Day 11) 2 nd Assignment due on week 7 Pop Quiz

3. Attendance

4. Inca Civilization Cultural periods 1150 – 1493 CE

5. TIMELINE FOR THE INCA CIVILIZATION

6. Pacha (world/realm) Religion/Cosmology INCAS

7. Expansion 1438 Inca Pachacutec TAWANTINSUYO

8. Tawantinsuyo four cardinal points Four Suyos (side/location): 1.Collasuyo (S) 2.Chinchaysuyo (N) 3.Contisuyo (SW) 4.Antisuyo (NE) Inti = sun

9. Inca Architecture (1) 1.It is widely known for its fine masonry, which features precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar. 2.Rectangular building without any internal walls and roofed with wooden beams and thatch. 3.Two-story buildings were infrequent. 4.Wall apertures, including doors, niches and windows, usually had a trapezoidal shape. 5.Other kinds of decoration were scarce. 6.Rectangular buildings were used for quite different functions in almost all Inca buildings, from humble houses to palaces and temples…

10. Trapezoidal Shape

11. Trapezoidal Windows

12. Gabled Roofs

13. Storehouses qollqa: Gabled Roofs

14. Inca Architecture (2) 6.The most common composite form in Inca architecture was the kancha. 7.Testimonies of this type of architecture are: … Cuzco (Qusqu'Qosqo) consisted of large kancha. --- The Temple of the Sun (Qorikancha) and the Inca palaces. … Ollantaytambo (near Cusco: Urubamba river). --- Temple of the Sun and The Mañacaray or Royal Hall. --- The Incahuatana and The Baños de la Princesa (Princess’ tub baths)

15. Lintel and double jamb Lintel Jamb

16. Population  Debates about the number of people inhabiting Tawantinsuyu at its peak.  As few as 4 million people, to more than 37 million.  The reason for these various estimates is that in spite of the fact that the Inca kept excellent census records using their quipu.

17. Quipu

18. Ollantaytambo (La Fortaleza/The Fortress)

19. Top of La Fortaleza Precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar.

20. Wiracochan / Tunupa The messenger of Viracocha

21. Wall of Six monoliths

22. Pedro Cieza de León "For as is well known to all, not a single village of the highlands or the plains failed to pay the tribute levied on it by those who were in charge of these matters. There were even provinces where, when the natives alleged that they were unable to pay their tribute, the Inca ordered that each inhabitant should be obliged to turn in every four months a large quill full of live lice, which was the Inca's way of teaching and accustoming them to pay tribute”

23. The bath of the Princess Chakana

24. Machu Picchu Pachacutec (Pachacuti) built Cuzco and Machu Picchu in 1438. Means old mountain. Ancients work systems: 1.Minca 2.Mita 3.Ayni MINKA

25. Machu Picchu

26. Terraced structures

27. Agricultural sector

28. Residential area: gabled roofs

29. Interior of a house / windows

30. Temple of the Sun or Torreon

31. Intihuatana / Inti watana HUATA  TO TIE UP, TO HICH & NA is a suffix for TOOL or PLACE

32. In the Sun Temple

33. 1400-1700 CE

34. The Inca Civilization

35. 2 nd Assigment  Week 5: HW#4 (1-15) due on week 7. Points off if HW is not typed

36. Pop Quiz