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Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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The Incas
The Incas
How did the Incas network of roads help the civilization?
At its height, the Incan civilization had more than six million people and stretched north to south 2,500 miles along the high mountainous Andean range from Colombia to Chile and reached west to east from the dry coastal desert called Atacama to the steamy Amazonian rain forest (http://www.crystalinks.com/incan.html). The Incas ruled the Andean Cordillera, which is second in height only to the Himalayas and daily life was spent at altitudes up to 15,000 feet while ritual life extended up to 22,057 feet to Llullaillaco in Chile, the highest Inca sacrificial site known today (http://www.crystalinks.com/incan.html). High atop the Andean Mountains the Incas had to cope with dehydration and the cold experienced by the high altitudes; this ability still marvels scientists today (http://www.crystalinks.com/incan.html). The Inca civilization reigned from 1150 to 1570, and in this time they accomplished many feats including their fascinating road system. The Incan culture ruled in the time before the wheel was invented; therefore, all of their travel and labor had to be done by animal or by man. Unfortunately the Incas who lived in South America had no access to large animals, which would have been a great aid in their architectural projects, but they only had llamas and alpacas (A domesticated South American mammal related to the llama and having fine, long wool) (http://www.crystalinks.com/incan.html). So how did the network of roads help the Incan civilization? One of the legacy's the Incas left behind was their network of roads. How did these roads connect all the societies in Incan culture? How did the roads simplify government? How were these roads built to withstand time? In the next few paragraphs I will explain how the system of roads made Incan society the way that it was.
In the vast Incan region that stretched 2500...
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