The Inca Empire, known as Children of the Sun, achieved many great things in its extremely short rule of less than one century. From 1432 to the end of mid 1500’s, they built an empire that extended 2,500 miles throughout the west coast of South America and gained wealth that was comparable to the Roman Empire. Like many great civilizations, there is a story to its beginning.
“The Inca beginning starts with the creator God Tici Viracocha who came out of Lake Titicaca. The people inhabiting its surroundings had insulted the great God in some way so he destroyed them, and cast them into stone. After this, Viracocha created the sun and the moon and new human life forms to be distributed to different sites along the western coast of South America. Some of these new life forms headed for Cuzco, later the greatest city of the Incas. Manco Capac then came forth from Lake Titicaca and headed to Cuzco via underground caves. He finally arrived with his brothers and all of their wives/sisters to the cave of Pacariqtamba in the Valley of Cuzco. After defeating his three brothers, who turned to stone after death, and taking their wives, Manco Capac became the first ruler of the Inca. From him descended all of the later Inca rulers.”
Inca had a government ruled by theocracy, carried by the emperor, also named the Sapa. The Sapa was considered a God-like character being above a human, but below the Gods. The Sapa dictated with a violent punishment system that rendered prisons irrelevant. If someone stole, murdered, had sex with a Sapa’s wife or his daughter, the Sun Virgin, there were a number of consequences. You were either thrown off of a cliff, had your hands cut off, had your eyes cut out or hung up and starved to death. Inca’s government was very organized and kept records of everything, but didn’t have a written language. They used a complex counting method known as Quipu, a system of recording using knotted cords and rope. The knots varied in size and...