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Inca Empire (1200-1535 A.D.)
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Inca Empire (1200-1535 A.D.)
Gender Roles in Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica Art
Inca
- Gender roles were established at birth.
- Boys were given a machete by their fathers.
- Girls received a stone instrument from their mothers, used to grind maze.
- Boys were taught crafts.
- Girls were taught to cook and other necessities.
- Maya, Aztec, and Inca art made stone sculptures to decorate sides of temples and palaces.
- Made ceramic bowls carved with human and animal forms across the front for religious ceremonies.
- Often used to ward off demonic spirits believed to be lurking in the afterlife.
- Engineering skills allowed for them to construct vast stone buildings high in the mts.
- Ruins of Machu Picchu, an ancient fortress city, provide the best surviving example of building skills.
- Many building blocks weigh 50 tons, but are fitted so precisely together that not even a knife blade could fit in the joints.
Inca
- 1400, Inca began extending their rule across the Andes.
- Eventually ruled area that is present day Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Chile.
- Built stone roads.
- Food was preserved and kept in storehouses.
- Used quipu, bundles of knotted and colored ropes, as form of writing.
Gender Roles in Mesoamerica
Inca
- Advanced culture developed along the Pacific coast and in the Andes Mts. of S. America.
- Grew potatoes and other root crops that could resist cold.
- Kept llamas and alpacas for their meat and wool and to carry goods.
- Women held various roles in the family.
- Harvesting grains
- Preparing food
- Caring for animals
- Making maize into flour.
- Also were to care and raise the children.
- Women could hold jobs outside of the homes such as selling goods in the market.
- Some were priestesses who worked in the temples.
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