Inca Empire in the days of its heyday was the largest state in the whole of South and North America, pre-Columbian period.It covered the territory of present-day Colombia to Chile.The heart of it is land owned by the state today Peru and Bolivia.This ancient civilization has made considerable progress in military affairs, the social organization of natural science, and has managed to leave behind a significant cultural heritage.
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Inca Indian living on the territory of Peru, lived in a world all-powerful, inspired and deified nature.The representatives of this civilization literally everything soulful thought.In this aspect of the ancient Indians of Peru have gone much further European pagan nations, only deified forces of nature.For the Incas, even the most insignificant objects have their own mind and will of the fruit of the potato, animals and even stones.Invisible spirit can manifest itself in many forms.Even the universe had some reasonable principle - an egg that has been depicted on a gold plate in the Temple of the Sun, the Inca capital of Cusco.Indian living on the territory of Peru, believed, of course, and in the immortality of the soul.The representatives of this civilization in general has been characterized by a peculiar form of totemism.Names deified animals called communal lands.It was believed that it will contribute to their fertility.Distributed was also ancestor worship.Indian inhabiting Peru, after his death, remained in the memory of their relatives.According to them, his spirit contributed to the fertility of animals, ripening, kind of well-being.The dead aristocrat, regardless of how he lived life on earth and how behaved, got straight to the abode of the sun.There's always an abundance reigned.But for a commoner after death there were options.In warm abode of the sun fell at a virtuous life, people.Sinners threatened to go into a kind of hell called tit-pack.That's just a hell of ancient Americans is not a red-hot heat of the place, and the ice cave.Thus, an Indian living on the territory of Peru, had passed from one generation to the mystical character, being largely a fatalist.Interestingly, social psychologists, and today is often credited with the representatives of the national character of extreme melancholic, ready to accept the vagaries of nature.At the same time religious ideas and outlook of the ancient inhabitants of the Peruvian mountains were very practical in nature.
Indian living on the territory of Peru, considered sacred agriculture.In fact, the population of the Incas consisted mainly of landowners.Because all of the daily life of Aboriginal people obeyed the cycle of sowing and harvesting.In society, there most revered priests, based on the knowledge of astronomy, lunar cycles and properties of plants.Incas managed to create a state that has become one of the most important centers in the history of the cultivation of plants.Even in today's world, more than half of the entire planet consumed products originally come from South America.
