Word: incas
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...intertwining of pre-conquest traditions and Spanish-Catholic customs evident in these marriage patterns is typical of sierra culture. Harvesting potatoes in a field high above Vicos, I often wondered whether I was on a medival manor or in an isolated corner of the Inca Empire...
...complex problems of the sierra region. If it fails, the government may well fear that the awakening population of the sierra will join with other discontented groups to bring about a revolution whose consequences could be felt far outside the borders of the world of the ancient Inca...
...recent tour through the backlands of his mountainous country, Peru's Premier Pedro Beltran, 64, a descendant of the Spanish conquistadors, stopped off in the ancient Inca city of Cuzc0,11,200 ft. up in the Andes. A howling, Communist-led mob of Indian peasants, descendants of the defeated Incas, greeted him with a barrage of rocks and cries of "To the wall!" Few places in Latin America know a wider chasm between rich and poor, between the white aristocracy and the Indian masses, who, 400 years after the conquest, still live in misery. Though Beltran is an alert...
...harsh at the best of times. The chilled winds that blow in from the cold Humboldt Current pass over the dust-dry coastal plain (Lima's last rain was 13 years ago), unload their moisture on the stony Andes. Yet in ancient times Peru flourished. The highly civilized Incas built stone-surfaced roads and bridged rivers; aqueducts spanned valleys, and canals cut through solid rock to carry irrigating water to elaborately terraced mountainside gardens. The welfare of every Indian was assured by a clear chain of governmental responsibility that went from the Inca himself down to officials responsible...
...Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd from western Spain, captured the Inca emperor by trickery, and had him strangled. Within a decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the richer lands of the Andean foothills into immense haciendas worked by Indian peasants held virtually as slaves. Today, while Peru exports cotton, sugar, silver and copper, it must import food to maintain even a marginal existence for the bulk of its 10 million people. Half the population is illiterate; undernourished children...