ARKY 357 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Sapa Inca, Rodent, Llama
15 Nov 2015
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Inca had many agricultural crops from many biotic zones to boost the economy. They had warehouses that stored all of their products, part of imperial, state cult and communal landholings (ayllus) Warehouses built in cuzco and in vicinity of key towns, capitals, estates and religious shrines. Imperial (inca state) warehouse were the most numerous and biggest. Warehouses houses different lasses of raw and manufactured goods. Did not just contain goods but showed them of to show the wealth of the inca state. Warehouses had mold, fungus, insect and rodent damage. They raised the thresholds, added gravel/stone floors, and stone line conduits that facilitated ventilation. Civil servants did inventory of the qollqas under the sapa inca. Khipu kamayuq occupation passed from father to osn. Reported directly to kurakas, governors and some cases, the sapa inca. Huanuco pampa storage houses >2000, circular storehouse maize (kernels in jars) Rectangular warehouse tubers (laid on straw mats, tied in bundles.
