Tahuantinsuyu Inca

‘Throughout much of Tahuantinsuyu, Inca provincial administration barely disturbed the existing power-structures’. Do you agree?

Jamie Duffield
Tahuantinsuyu is the term used to refer to the physical description of the Inca Empire. It was composed of around eighty provinces, which were unevenly distributed into four parts[1]. The connotation of Tahuantinsuyu provokes deliberation of its imperial dynamic over the provinces, which were incorporated into it. If one reads the historiography surrounding the epoch of Inca domination within the Andes it becomes apparent that the Inca was at the apex of the power structure, “the Inca’s own person was thus exalted far above that of the highest dignitaries…”[2]
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and Hamilton,R.,.ed.,Narrative of the Incas, Juan De Betanzos,(Austin,1996) p.50 and Op.cit,( Davies,1995), p.162
[30] Op.cit,(Davies,1995), p.162
[31] Murra,J.V., Wachtel,N. and Revel,J.,ed.,Anthropological history of Andean,(Cambridge,1986),p.163
[32]Op.cit,(Davies,1995), p.165
[33] Collier,G.A., Rosaldo,R.I. and Wirth,J.D.ed.,The Inca and Aztec states,1400-1800: Anthopology and history,(New York,1982) p.185
[34] Op.cit,(D’Altroy,2002), p.235
[35]Op.cit,( Davies,1995), p.168
[36] Moore,S.F.,Power and Poperty in Inca Peru,(Westport,1973) p.101
[37] Op.cit,(Davies,1995), p.168
[38] Bauer,B.S.,The Development of the Inca State,(Austin,1992),p.63

[39] Hyslop,J.,Inka Settlement Planning,(Austin,1990) p.296
[40] Op.cit,(D’altroy,2002), p.215 ‘For practical reasons, ethnic elites led their own men on the battlefield, due in part to the differing dialects. However, the local elites still fell under the control of Inca command’.
[41]Op.cit,( Davies,1995), p.168
[42] Op.cit,(D’altroy,2002), p.218
[43] Ibid,p.218
[44]Op.cit(Parssinen,1992) p.167
[45] Ibid, p.167
[46] Op.cit,(Saloman,1996),