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.