HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Machu Picchu, Cross Fell, Titu Cusi
14 Oct 2016
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Encounters 1: lessons in interpreting history (1) inca empire. Requirement: authority of christian right to rule (3) rewind (4) scene and players: cajamarca -- 16 nov. 1532, atahualpa meets fray vicente valverde (5) authors. Up for debate - appeared sometime in early 13th century. Inca expansion, 1438: paramount leader: pachacuti cusi yupanqui, he along with son brought much of the. Andes mountains under inca: inca translates as ruler or lord, reorganized kingdom of cuzco: central government and 4 provincial governments (each of the provincial government with strong local leader, may have built machu picchu. Size of inca empire: enormous debate: estimate range from 4 to 37 million, part of reason we do not know, while inca kept relay good records using the quipu, world has lost the ability to read it. ** quipu were knotted strings, used as memory device or record numerical data. Now research thinks it as a form of writing.
