warning! what you are about to see will leave you in awe and you will be asking
TRANSCRIPT
Due to the speeding time travel, this PowerPoint is not rated for children under the age of 6 years old. Thank you for your
understanding. Enjoy the show!
This high definition transporter will blast you all in a flash to the ancient Inca faster then you can say “Llama, llama!”
Look around, what do you see? Mountains! People! Llamas! You will find all of that here in Ancient Inca!
Ancient Inca is located in the western parts of South America. The empire takes up almost all of western
South America.
And if you are lucky enough to stumble upon a valley during our trip, it will look something like
this
Girls would learn to weave and cook on weekends by there moms teaching them and on weekdays, would go to
school to learn how to read and write Quechua (KECH-wah)
Boy would also go to school on weekdays with all of the girls, to read and write Quechua, and on weekends, the would follow there fathers while they worked to teach themselves the responsibilities of being
an Incan man
Women would run the household by weaving, cooking, and cleaning. They would also have the reasonability of
caring for ALL of the children when not at school.
The ruler, Cuzco, had a VERY fierce army. There goal was to conquer as much land as possible. They would conquer new lands by
persuading the people of other lands with corn, a place to stay, and good education for there young.
Cuzco, the empire
If they say, no, this is where the army comes in, they attack the main land and decapitate the people that would not join
there land and that is how they conquered new lands.
Incan army
Ancient Incan not only used there very own language, Quechua (KECH-wah) but had there own of taking messages a far distance, the used Quipus (KEE-puhz) these knotted roped have different colors, knot
types, and lengths, depending on what it is standing for.
To deliver these quips (KEE-puz), they had messengers. Messengers were people who traveled a long distance to deliver messages for little pay. They often played joyful tunes on a flute while traveling.
Also, famers would trade their crops for other goods, such as silks for weaving and other crops that they
might be low on stock or not able to grow, due to soils.
Yeah, llamas. Llamas were used to pull carts. They were also used for transporting an item or items to a far away place.
Incan people also loved to cave stone. They used levers and chisels. Chisels would carve the stone
and the lever would hold it up
chisel
lever
Sorry, I couldn’t find a picture of a lampa, all that would come up was a lamp. It thinks I spelled lamp
wrong.
And one more thing that is sort of like the ancient Greeks, the Incans worshiped many gods and goddess. Some of the included Inti (the
sun god), Mamacocha (the sea goddess), and Pachamama (the earth goddess).
Children began school at age 13. if you lived in ancient Inca, you still wouldn’t be in school yet!
This picture shows an Incan school
Did you know that in ancient Inca, they only had schools in the capital city, Cuzco? Yes, its true! Some kids even
had to walk miles, just to learn to read and write!
Incans were VERY skilled builders. They could build a building so tightly, you couldn’t even slide a thin
knife trough one of the cracks in the stone!
The Incans loved to paint, sculpt, and do lots of art. They were known for there wonderful pottery and
paintings.
Ancient pottery
Ancient painting
Ancient weaving
Many clothes were made out of llama or alpaca wool. If you were lucky enough to own a cotton farm, your
clothes would be made out of cotton or wool.
Almost all of the buildings in ancient Inca are hand-built stone buildings. All of the buildings are very
well built.
Now, that is the end of are tour, we have to go home. Let me just press the button, uh, has anyone seen the transporter? Oh yeah, I just saw a llama trying to eat the top of it off. Now I have got it.
Yum Yum!
Great, now we are back in the computer lab. I hope you enjoyed the trip. I hope you keep the wonderful experience
and the facts you learned forever in your mind.