Daily Life In The Inca Empire

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INCA – Daily Life

I am here today to discuss the daily life in the Inca Empire and to prove that the Inca’s were indeed a very sophisticated civilization. The sophistication of the Incan empire does not stem from technological advancements, nor geological discoveries, but rather their lifestyle. Incan leaders used customs of daily life to enforce happiness, a lack of crime and also an abundance of produce, allowing them to be the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in their world in that time.

Inca rulers were psychologists who keenly studied human behavior and the Incan people were a hard working civilization, where people worked from sun up to sun down. This custom of hard work was enshrined in their culture to ensure
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An example of such festival is the harvesting of the maize crops which is celebrated with an eight day festival-feast. Each day chanting begins with the rising of the sun and diminishes to silence by dusk. Offerings of llamas and maize beer are made to the sun god. With lots of dancing, music, food this is a joyous festival. The sophistication of their governing body recognized, even in ancient times, that if they rewarded their people and offered a life with a healthy balance, rebellion and crime would be kept to a minimum. The lack of crime allowed the civilization to be very comfortable and untroubled. This lifestyle also supported their social, legal and economic …show more content…
They sang as they went about their tasks. Inca expert V.W. Hagen describes the agricultural achievements of the Inca farmers ‘It has been estimated that more kinds of food and medicinal plants were systematically cultivated her than in any other sizable area of the world’. The Incas are believed to be the first civilization that benefited from the medicinal purposes of potatoes, and planted them as their main crop. The farmers also produced many crops which were preserved, for example maize and quinoa were pounded into flour. They then stored the flour in large pots or jars. They kept store houses full of food in every region in the event of natural disaster or crop failure. Thinking ahead and planning for disaster adds to the argument that the Incas were a very sophisticated