Inca People

Incans would not be considered married unless they exchanged sandals

The Incas would put peanuts in caskets to help in the afterlife.

• The Incas believed that their ruler was the direct descendant of the sun God, Inti. Their ruler was a god. The Incas believed in many gods. They believed in the god of nature, the moon, of weather, of rainbows, and of planets. Every mountaintop was a god. All Incas had little statues in their homes that were the homes of little spirits. Anything might house a god. Just to be safe, they prayed to all their gods every day.

• Every month, the Incas held a huge and public religious festival honoring one of their major gods. At the festival, there was dancing and feasting and sacrifice.

The Incas created a highway and road system in Peru with over 18,000 miles of roads.

• The Incas had a type of postal system where relay messengers ran across rope bridges to deliver communications to the next team. Messengers lived in pairs, with one person sleeping and the other on alert for messages.

The Incas performed successful skull surgeries.

The Incas were the first to cultivate the potato in Peru.

The Incas used a system of knotted and colored strings, a ‘quipu’ for records, math and possibly even language.

• The Incas used a dry masonry method to construct buildings without mortar using stones fit so perfectly together that nothing can slip between them and it proved to be extremely resistant to earthquakes

The Incas used advanced farming techniques such as canals and ditches to irrigate their crops in Peru.

• The Incas administered intelligence tests to Incan children and based on their results they were either taught a trade or sent to school to become administrators or part of the nobility