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The Inca

In Our Time

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Inka Festivals - What Do You Mean by That?

The engineering was ingenious, wasn't it? It was. Not only were the road system is very impressive, but this stretched across the empire and involved things like suspension bridges. And of course in their cities as well, they develop a way of building, which doesn't use mortar, but you have bricks that kind of perfectly tessellate with one another. They looked after mountains, they looked down on them and were part of their God system. Did their spiritual life come into their agricultural cultivation? Absolutely. So a lot of the Inka festivals and the ceremonies that they carry out were closely related to the agricultural calendar. Often that entailed sacrificing different number of llamas, for example

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