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HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America

HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America. SFC Fall 2013 Week 6. Today’ s Agenda Day 11. Attendance South American Civilization: The Incas Religion (Day 10) Architecture (Day 11) 2 nd Assignment due on week 7 Pop Quiz. Attendance. Inca Civilization. Cultural periods 1150 – 1493 CE.

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HUM 2461 Humanities of Latin America

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  1. HUM 2461Humanities of Latin America SFC Fall 2013 Week 6

  2. Today’s Agenda Day 11 • Attendance • South American Civilization: The Incas • Religion (Day 10) • Architecture (Day 11) • 2nd Assignment due on week 7 • Pop Quiz

  3. Attendance

  4. Inca Civilization Cultural periods 1150 – 1493 CE

  5. TIMELINE FOR THE INCA CIVILIZATION

  6. INCAS Pacha(world/realm) Religion/Cosmology

  7. Expansion1438IncaPachacutecTAWANTINSUYO

  8. Tawantinsuyofour cardinal points Four Suyos (side/location): Collasuyo (S) Chinchaysuyo (N) Contisuyo (SW) Antisuyo (NE) Inti = sun

  9. Inca Architecture (1) It is widely known for its fine masonry, which features precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar. Rectangular building without any internal walls and roofed with wooden beams and thatch. Two-story buildings were infrequent. Wall apertures, including doors, niches and windows, usually had a trapezoidal shape. Other kinds of decoration were scarce. Rectangular buildings were used for quite different functions in almost all Inca buildings, from humble houses to palaces and temples…

  10. Trapezoidal Shape

  11. Trapezoidal Windows

  12. Gabled Roofs

  13. Storehouses qollqa: Gabled Roofs

  14. Inca Architecture (2) • The most common composite form in Inca architecture was the kancha. • Testimonies of this type of architecture are: … Cuzco (Qusqu'Qosqo) consisted of large kancha. --- The Temple of the Sun (Qorikancha) and the Inca palaces. … Ollantaytambo(near Cusco: Urubamba river). --- Temple of the Sun and The Mañacaray or Royal Hall. --- The Incahuatanaand The Baños de la Princesa (Princess’ tub baths)

  15. Lintel and double jamb Lintel Jamb

  16. Population Debates about the number of people inhabiting Tawantinsuyu at its peak. As few as 4 million people, to more than 37 million. The reason for these various estimates is that in spite of the fact that the Inca kept excellent census records using their quipu.

  17. Quipu

  18. Ollantaytambo (La Fortaleza/The Fortress)

  19. Top of La Fortaleza Precisely cut and shaped stones closely fitted without mortar.

  20. Wiracochan / Tunupa The messenger of Viracocha

  21. Wall of Six monoliths

  22. Pedro Cieza de León "For as is well known to all, not a single village of the highlands or the plains failed to pay the tribute levied on it by those who were in charge of these matters. There were even provinces where, when the natives alleged that they were unable to pay their tribute, the Inca ordered that each inhabitant should be obliged to turn in every four months a large quill full of live lice, which was the Inca's way of teaching and accustoming them to pay tribute”

  23. The bath of the Princess Chakana

  24. Machu Picchu • Pachacutec (Pachacuti) built Cuzco and Machu Picchu in 1438. • Means old mountain. • Ancients work systems: • Minca • Mita • Ayni MINKA

  25. Machu Picchu

  26. Terraced structures

  27. Agricultural sector

  28. Residential area: gabled roofs

  29. Interior of a house / windows

  30. Temple of the Sun or Torreon

  31. Intihuatana / Intiwatana HUATA TO TIE UP, TO HICH & NA is a suffix for TOOL or PLACE

  32. In the Sun Temple

  33. 1400-1700 CE

  34. The Inca Civilization

  35. 2ndAssigment • Week 5: HW#4 (1-15) due on week 7. Points off if HW isnottyped

  36. Pop Quiz

  37. See you Tuesday Hasta el martes À mardi Até terça-feira

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