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A little about Peru. please help.?
1) What were some of the important systems built by the Incas? 2) What property Peru is divided geographically, making it difficult to Peruvians to form a cohesive society? 3) What are some uses of blankets (shawls colors beautiful fabrics)? 4) What is the meaning of architecture in culture? Please help. Thanks.
1.-The Incas devised an excellent communication network more than 6,000 km in length, with roads and posts. A news took five days to travel the 2.000 km. between Quito and Cuzco. Roads were built by the purics or laborers aided by slaves, who were from other towns to which the Incas ruled. Building stones of up to 1.5 m2 (square meters) used the stones were placed one at the other end. No one knows how to move the giant stones from Cuzco to Quito, because the wheel was not known. The roads were necessary for two reasons. The rapid movement their armies across the empire. As media for quick "messengers" services. 2.-Location of Peru (former Inca territory): Peru is in the southern hemisphere, with 6,940 km. borders (Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador). Its total area, including islands in the Pacific Ocean and Lake Titicaca is a '285, 216 km2, with a coastline of 3,079.5 km and a maritime domain of 321.87 miles of the coast. Highlights: is full and varied. Presents showed on the coast, in the plains of the Andes mountains or the peaks in the bottom of the high jungle and in the vast plains of the Amazon valley. It also presents strong contrasts, with a very rough topography in the Andean slopes in high mountain areas that exceed the Altiplano (covered or not), by the perpetual snow in the mountains and the rugged geography of the jungle. the problem with Chile, which robbed us (to say) 200 miles of our sea by the Treaty on account of many is reason My country that there is a united, is the problem of probeza quite apart from the mountains hills which all take care of their farms and can not leave anything we coast, mountains and forest, so the people of each region (take care of your crops and not leave anything in the world, the truth is so many problems in my country that would take a century to tell everyone:) textiles 3.-Inca and Inca uncu poncho. Representing over 150 designs or geometric tocapus. Probably belonged to a noble Cuzco. Inca textile art is one of the oldest textile traditions of the Andes and became one of the most developed for the Incas, height due to the use of different materials and techniques (results hybrid culture acquired through conquest of other ethnic Andean). The Incas were able to produce a wide variety of clothing and everyday items. The Inca textiles are characterized by geometric designs or tocapus and refinement of his technique. The Incas were noted for their tapestries and coats of geometric designs of feathers. They had a special sense of symmetry, which is reflected in the repetition of stylized figures arranged very orderly textile primacy to the Incas the importance of textiles was religious, social and political. Expressed their worldview, their sense of space and its divisions. They were symbols of social status. The famous Dameros ponchos, white with black Red Centre and is intended only to General apricots or relatives of the Inca. Reportedly, geometric designs, which appear in some tissues, also served to identify the Incas and their families. From the political view represented textile treasures interchangeable and taxable products that unite the Empire. Wire material – Obtaining premium Cabuya: derived from hemp, sisal is used for making sandals, ropes, nets and bags. In some regions, sisal to be used as a medicinal item. Cotton: One of the most valuable materials of the Inca culture: In addition to effective protection against the cold, is used to cover the dead in funerary equipment. Woollen indispensable raw material for clothing, you could get the blaze, which every two years, shearing and alpaca and vicuña (whose wool is very good). Each camel could provide up to 3 kg. Dyeing and weaving of yarns dyed with aniline previously prepared – prepared for grass and grain-knitted garments through various types of looms, both fixed and mobile. The most frequent was the waist that manipulated women sitting at the loom in the legs. Manufacturers wool dyeing clothes were later Canticamayocs. Now he knows of the Incas colored cotton (no need to make the tint is). An example of this can be done by Ayacucho sweaters. One of the best garments produced the Incas were the uncus or shirts, which is characterized by being decorated with embroidered figures tocapu character named geometric. These forms have attracted interest from researchers, due to the complexity and variety of details that have suggested a kind of ideographic writing. Techniques been several knitting techniques spread among the Incas, which varied according to region. The most frequently used were the yarn, brocade upholstery, double fabric, woven, warp and weft faces, and knotting. These techniques developed depended 4.-Inca architecture is characterized by the simplicity of its forms, its strength, its symmetry and find the buildings to bring the landscape. Unlike coastal societies such as the Chimu, Incas used a more restrained decoration. The main material used was stone, few buildings stood uncarved, but not in the most complex and important. Techniques developed Inca builders for the erection of huge walls, mosaic composed of carved stone that fit perfectly, while including a PIN can pass block. Often these blocks were so great that it is difficult to imagine its placement, the best examples of this ability are in the Cusco area. We know that the best stone carvers were Collas from the highlands and many of them were taken to Cusco to serve the state
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