Inca+Persian

 Leaders, Elite  State Structure  War  Diplomacy  Courts, Laws      || Saypay Inca (Incan Ruler) and Coya (female consort  Bureaucratic Empire with emperor and local officials; hiearchis of men and women officials governed the empire equally  No war  Conquered by Pizarro, a conquistador, in 1520's ||   Type of System     Technology, Industry     Trade, Commerce     Capital/ Money     Types of Businesses  || // Mita- // labor system  Farming, mining, military and manufacturing  Trade with the “American Web”  n/a  Store houses filled with supplies for the poor ||   Holy Books     Beliefs, Teachings     Conversation     Sin/ Salvation     Deities  || n/a  Creator God Viracocha and the son of the Sun God Inti; Inca ideology in terms of family relationships and elaborate feasts; human sacrifices; people were allowed to carry on their own religious traditions  n/a  n/a ||   Family     Gender Relations     Social Class     Inequalities  Life Styles || Important family relationships in ideology; men descended from their fathers and women from their mothers Men and women operate in two separate but equivalent spheres, each gender enjoying itself in its own sphere; women worshiped the moon and men worshiped the sun Men occupied top positions in political and religious life; military life limited to men Male infidelity was treated more lightly than a woman’s unfaithfulness Young girls were trained in producing corn beer and cloth and later given to elite men as wives or sent to serve as priestesses in temples, these girls are known as “wives of the sun”; Quechua speaking people ||  Art, Music  Writing, Literature  Philosophy  Math & Science  Education || Textiles, metal goods, ceramics, and stone work // Quipus- // knotted cords that served as an accounting device n/a n/a n/a ||  Location  Physical  Movement  Human/ Environment  Region || Along the Andes Mountains Largest imperial state; larger than Aztecs n/a Incorporated the lands and cultures of earlier Andean Civilizations; 10 million subjects South America; present day Peru ||
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