at dyad with powers this great Empire
was bigger than the Aztecs and the
Mayans welcome to watchmojo.com –nt
were counting down the most fascinating
and surprising facts about the Incan
Empire which was the largest empire in
the history of the Americas before the
arrival of Christopher Columbus let me
tell you the reason why the Incas
flourished number five Incas were the
first to cultivate the Irish potato the
potato is typically associated with the
Irish because potatoes were a major
source of food for the Irish especially
during the winter what you may not know
however is that the first people to
cultivate the potato were the Incas in
Peru way back in roughly 8000 BC the
inca were very gifted farmers especially
considering the fact that they lived on
mountainous terrain they constructed
complex networks of ditches to irrigate
fields and terraced mountain slopes to
prevent soil erosion sometime in the mid
16th century sailors brought the potato
back to Spain and from there its
cultivation spread across the continent
number four they were some of the
greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages
it’s hard to imagine 15th century brain
surgery but according to recent research
the Incas were actually very successful
at performing trepanation trephination
was initially a form of surgery for
fractured skulls but later on it was
used in rituals to allow malignancy or
diseases to escape they typically used
it on men who had been injured in combat
survival rates for the surgery were
around 90% and studies have shown that
there was a very low infection rate
unfortunately for patients there was no
anesthesia so surgeons often used beer
and tobacco to help alleviate some of
the pain in fact to this day alcohol and
cigarettes remain popular ways to
self-medicate Bane bares good
and people are crazy number three the
Inca Empire United a hundred different
ethnic groups pocha Cunha is the name
that he took and it means he who
overturns space and time when Patrick
who deformed the Inca Empire in the mid
15th century he needed to come up with a
system to become an effective ruler this
wasn’t easy as the area that composed
the Empire consisted of over 12 million
people from a hundred different ethnic
groups he did so by creating a very
structured social system the government
would mandate a number of workdays for
different professions such as builders
and farmers and provided the people with
food and clothing the Inca also used a
system of roadways covering over 15,000
miles to keep the Empire connected
number two they had no written language
unlike the Aztecs or Mayans the Incas
did not have a written language instead
they spoke Quechua an incredibly diverse
language that could be spoken by
everyone within the Empire you know
practice a new gizmo and last a
giesemann instead of writing they used a
keepo a device of their own invention
this device consisted of cords of
different colors and lengths the Incas
would then use knots to record important
dates or events according to the Spanish
the Incas would also use oral language
art and songs to commemorate specific
events and maintain historical records
once the Spanish conquered the Incas
however they immediately applied the
Roman alphabet to the language number
one the dead played a role in everyday
life like many Mesoamerican empires the
Incas viewed their emperors as earthly
gods as such it was believed that the
Emperor had absolute power and was
essentially a dictator I am one hungry
king in the world this belief did not
change once the Emperor was dead like
many other ancient Andean cultures the
Inca believed that the mummified remains
of rulers were sacred and they were
regularly removed from their tombs to
participate in ceremonies be paraded
around town and be offered food and
drink we’re not sure if any of them ever
said yes some andean cultures even
carried mummified rulers into battle
they toppled him from his
and once they had that than the
chocolate submitted most people would
have been too terrified to continue
fighting once their revered mummified
ancestor had been captured so how would
you feel about worshiping your
grandfather’s mummified body well it’s
not as that as we would hope and if we
replaced written language with a series
of knotted cords do you think it would
improve YouTube comments for more
surgically precise top tens and
mummified top fives be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com I’m sorry but you’ve
thrown off the Emperor’s groove
was bigger than the Aztecs and the
Mayans welcome to watchmojo.com –nt
were counting down the most fascinating
and surprising facts about the Incan
Empire which was the largest empire in
the history of the Americas before the
arrival of Christopher Columbus let me
tell you the reason why the Incas
flourished number five Incas were the
first to cultivate the Irish potato the
potato is typically associated with the
Irish because potatoes were a major
source of food for the Irish especially
during the winter what you may not know
however is that the first people to
cultivate the potato were the Incas in
Peru way back in roughly 8000 BC the
inca were very gifted farmers especially
considering the fact that they lived on
mountainous terrain they constructed
complex networks of ditches to irrigate
fields and terraced mountain slopes to
prevent soil erosion sometime in the mid
16th century sailors brought the potato
back to Spain and from there its
cultivation spread across the continent
number four they were some of the
greatest surgeons of the Middle Ages
it’s hard to imagine 15th century brain
surgery but according to recent research
the Incas were actually very successful
at performing trepanation trephination
was initially a form of surgery for
fractured skulls but later on it was
used in rituals to allow malignancy or
diseases to escape they typically used
it on men who had been injured in combat
survival rates for the surgery were
around 90% and studies have shown that
there was a very low infection rate
unfortunately for patients there was no
anesthesia so surgeons often used beer
and tobacco to help alleviate some of
the pain in fact to this day alcohol and
cigarettes remain popular ways to
self-medicate Bane bares good
and people are crazy number three the
Inca Empire United a hundred different
ethnic groups pocha Cunha is the name
that he took and it means he who
overturns space and time when Patrick
who deformed the Inca Empire in the mid
15th century he needed to come up with a
system to become an effective ruler this
wasn’t easy as the area that composed
the Empire consisted of over 12 million
people from a hundred different ethnic
groups he did so by creating a very
structured social system the government
would mandate a number of workdays for
different professions such as builders
and farmers and provided the people with
food and clothing the Inca also used a
system of roadways covering over 15,000
miles to keep the Empire connected
number two they had no written language
unlike the Aztecs or Mayans the Incas
did not have a written language instead
they spoke Quechua an incredibly diverse
language that could be spoken by
everyone within the Empire you know
practice a new gizmo and last a
giesemann instead of writing they used a
keepo a device of their own invention
this device consisted of cords of
different colors and lengths the Incas
would then use knots to record important
dates or events according to the Spanish
the Incas would also use oral language
art and songs to commemorate specific
events and maintain historical records
once the Spanish conquered the Incas
however they immediately applied the
Roman alphabet to the language number
one the dead played a role in everyday
life like many Mesoamerican empires the
Incas viewed their emperors as earthly
gods as such it was believed that the
Emperor had absolute power and was
essentially a dictator I am one hungry
king in the world this belief did not
change once the Emperor was dead like
many other ancient Andean cultures the
Inca believed that the mummified remains
of rulers were sacred and they were
regularly removed from their tombs to
participate in ceremonies be paraded
around town and be offered food and
drink we’re not sure if any of them ever
said yes some andean cultures even
carried mummified rulers into battle
they toppled him from his
and once they had that than the
chocolate submitted most people would
have been too terrified to continue
fighting once their revered mummified
ancestor had been captured so how would
you feel about worshiping your
grandfather’s mummified body well it’s
not as that as we would hope and if we
replaced written language with a series
of knotted cords do you think it would
improve YouTube comments for more
surgically precise top tens and
mummified top fives be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com I’m sorry but you’ve
thrown off the Emperor’s groove
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