Book contents
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Global developments
- Part II Eurasian commonalities
- Part III Growing interactions
- Part IV Expanding religious systems
- Part V State formations
- 18 State formation and empire building
- 19 State formation in China from the Sui through the Song dynasties
- 20 The Mongol Empire and inter-civilizational exchange
- 21 Byzantium
- 22 Early polities of the Western Sudan
- 23 Mesoamerican state formation in the Postclassic period
- 24 State and religion in the Inca Empire
- 25 “Proto-globalization” and “Proto-glocalizations” in the Middle Millennium
- Index
- References
24 - State and religion in the Inca Empire
from Part V - State formations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Table
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Global developments
- Part II Eurasian commonalities
- Part III Growing interactions
- Part IV Expanding religious systems
- Part V State formations
- 18 State formation and empire building
- 19 State formation in China from the Sui through the Song dynasties
- 20 The Mongol Empire and inter-civilizational exchange
- 21 Byzantium
- 22 Early polities of the Western Sudan
- 23 Mesoamerican state formation in the Postclassic period
- 24 State and religion in the Inca Empire
- 25 “Proto-globalization” and “Proto-glocalizations” in the Middle Millennium
- Index
- References
Summary
Documents produced by Spanish officials containing demographic, administrative and economic information supplement these accounts, regarding the provinces of the Inca Empire. Pachacuti's victory over the Chancas and the incorporation of the Chanca settlements under Inca rule that followed led to further campaigns that, combined with diplomatic overtures, brought increasingly distant polities into the framework of Tahuantinsuyu. The combination of diplomacy and warfare, which is a theme in the crónicas that narrate the conquests of Pachacuti and his successors Tupa Yupanqui and Guayna Capac, is adumbrated in two distinct strands in the Inca myth of origin. The Incas endeavoured to impose a certain uniformity on these different regions and peoples, at least in principle. As for Inca administration, populations were organized into age groups and decimal units of households, sometimes with intermediate subdivisions, the units being adjusted periodically in accord with demographic fluctuations. The chapter explains the Inca religion in detail.
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- The Cambridge World History , pp. 638 - 664Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015
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