Lords Of Gold And Glory
(Incas)
Incas Lords of Gold and GloryThis Time-Life book pictures South American civilization starting with the Chavin civilizations of 1400-400 BC, then the Paracas, Nazca and Moche cultures of 400 BC to 550 AD, then Tiahuanacans and Hauris of 550-900, then the Chimi of 900-1476, then the Incas, who established overall control, only to be defeated by the Spaniards in 1532. By 1572, the last Inca resistance had been crushed with its last king?s death.The Incas divided their society into 10s, 50s, 100s, 500s and 1,000s, and so on, almost the same as Moses divided Israel (and Jesus divided the crowd of 5,000 while feeding them (p61). Only the Incas divided them by 10, 50, and 100s (and so on) families rather than individuals.Incas also killed the whole family for the sin of one, because "a crime both religious and civil" would merit "the death of not only the culprit but also his parents and siblings" (p121). The Israelites, likewise, killed killed Achan and Korah with the same high value places on religious crime. A secular era doesn?t understand this.The Incas had no welfare state-everyone had to work. The top three civil crimes of were lying, stealing and laziness. To this day, Andean people still have a strong work ethic.Learning cross-cultural education benefits us. Indeed, Pizarro for years "deal with peoples of the New World, studying their strengths and weaknesses. And his lessons in conquest had come from the master himself when, in Spain, he had listened to Hernan Cortes, his cousin, tell the story of how he had wrested Mexico from the Aztecs. Atahualpa , while able to muster hundreds of thousands of fierce, battle-hardened fighters, knew nothing of the European character" (p24). And he lost. Let?s learn, and win, progress, succeed.
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