Factors That Enabled the Incas to Develop an Advanced Society

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Factors that enabled the Incas to develop an advanced society before 1492 The Incan society survived between the years 1438 to 1527 in the Andean Mountain range in South America and it stretched from Ecuador to Chile. These people created a society that will be marvelled as one the greatest pre-Colombian empire in history and will always be seen as the economical marvel with no currency. These people also had a basic understanding of genetics as shown in their agriculture especially the biodiversity of their potatoes. They even used their location in the Andes mountain range to maximize the diversity of the crops they grow. Their large empire consisted of 4 parts Antisuyo, Alasuyo, Conti and Chincha. These were further divided into divisions called Allyus which were further sub divided into villages of similar family background such as a common ancestry and was ruled by a hereditary chief the Curaca. One of the factors that made the Incan society so advanced was their economy. They had no currency but yet still they were prosperous in food stuff, textiles, gold, silver and coca. Their economy wasn’t based on currency but was based around labour this was done by using a tax system to get people to wage labour in exchange for necessities for life. This tax system was called the Mita system this entailed of people doing labour for a specific amount of hours based on the job they are doing such as building roads, water channels and building great architecture marvels such as Cuzco this was done by Pachacuti by the use 30,000 to wage the labour needed. Even though their empire was optimized to prevent starvation rather to foster trade they still traded. Their main trade was cloth, but they also traded gold, silver, llamas and pots. The Inca with no writing created an ingenious system for keeping track of information this was called Quipu which consisted of string

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