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Inca Empire

MACHU PICCHU-PERU

List of Inca Emperors

Domain	Period/date	Ruler	Dynasty	Important related information
Kingdom of Cuzco	approx. 1200 - 1400	Manco Cápac I.	Hurín
	approx. 1230s	Sinchi Roca
	approx. 1260s	Lloque Yupanqui
	approx. 1290s	Mayta Cápac
	approx. 1320s	Cápac Yupanqui
	approx. 1350s	Inca Roca	Hanán
	approx. 1380s	Yahuár Huacác
	approx. 1410 - 1438	Viracocha Inca
Inca Empire (Tahuantinsuyo)	approx. 1438 - 1471	Pachacuti (Pachacútec)		Said to have constructed Machu Picchu.
	approx. 1471 - 1493	Túpac Inca Yupanqui (Tópa Inca)		The son of Emperor Pachacuti, the supposed constructor of Choquequirao, also known as the "Sacred Sister of Machu Picchu".
	approx. 1493 - 1525/'27	Huayná Cápac		He was the last Inca Emperor who ruled before the Arrival of the Spaniards.
	approx. 1525 - 1532	Huascár*		Huascár ruled the Southern parts of the Inca Empire, following his father's death. He rivaled his brother Atahualpa.
	approx. 1525 - 1533	Atahualpa*		Ruled the northern parts of the Empire and in the succession fight with his brother, he naively accepted Spanish help. Atahualpa murdered his own brother Huascár and took over the control of the whole Empire.
Vilcabamba Kingdom (or State)	approx. 1533	Tópa Huallpa		Founder of the Vilcabamba Kingdom/State, in a valley beyond the Cordillera Vilcabamba, northwest of the Urubamba Valley.
	approx. 1533 - 1544	Manco Inca Yupanqui (Manco Cápac II.)		He was crowned as the new Inca ruler by Francisco Pizarro in 1534. Because he was used by the Spaniards and was abused of, he rebelled against them, uniting many Incas. Manco Cápac II. was one of the most powerful Inca rulers, he was the strongest opponent of the Spaniards. Manco Cápac II. was the one who escaped from Cuzco and founded the fortress of Vilcabamba, where he took refuge and periodically fought the powerful armoured Spanish forces. He was successful in several attempts to resist the Spaniards, including the reclaiming of Cuzco for several days. In the end, he was murdered in 1544 by Diego de Almagro.
	approx. 1545 - 1560	Sayri Túpac		Successor of Manco Cápac II., put in place by Diego de Almagro.
	approx. 1560 - 1570	Titu Cusi Yupanqui
	approx. 1571 - 1572	Túpac Amaru		The last Inca ruler, he was killed in 1572, when the Spaniards managed to conquer the Vilcabamba and finally gained full control over the Inca lands.

Inca Daily Life

The inca daily life was hard and difficult, but at the same time it was a relief to belong to the inca empire, because the inca government take and redistribute everything in the community, from the inca food to all elements need it to have a long and healthy life, it is important to remind that broken any inca law will cost your life, so better you decide whether it was good or not.

The inca music melodies had only 5 tones (do,re,fa,sol,la) and it was enough to create four types of music.

The incas use wood, ceramic, textiles, stone and copper, to manufacture all kinds of inca artifacts, like for example the glasses call Keros and the spoons, that were only made with wood.

The greatest achievement of the inca agriculturewas to guarantee a sustainable and permanent food supply to all parts of the kingdom, this was accomplish by the use of three methods of agriculture.

The inca daily life was a constant inca farmingwork, because the incas develop an extraordinary variety of procedures to preserve food, most of this procedures were drying, salting or dehydrating pre cooked food, some of this processes are quite complicated.

All the production of the inca clothing was responsibility of the inca government, the incas create houses call Acllahuasi, where the Tanticamayoc was the responsible of dyeing the wool with natural dyes.

All inca homes had a small altar with their favorite divinities images and other important things for the family; The incas had a very strong tradition of family ties, so honor their ancestors was part of the daily life.

The boys end their childhood inca education at 14 years old, the girls end it when they had their first menstruation, in both cases it was celebrated by all the community.

The inca women were the engine that move the inca development; The history of the incas is not giving the right place to the achievements of women during the inca empire.

The technology use in the inca calendar was not invented by the incas, it was collected from older civilizations; There is archaeological evidence, that the towers of Chankillo ruins at 400 km north from Lima, are a 2300 years old sun observatory and calendar.

The most important element in the inca daily life was the coca leaves, the dried leaves in infusion (inca tea), is the best known digestive, amazing fat burner and antidepressant.