Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System' has mentioned 'Empire' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| The Tawantinsuyu, that integrated the current territories of Peru, continued towards the north through present Ecuador, reaching the northernmost limits of the Andean mountain range, in the region of Los Pastos, in Colombia; by the South it penetrated down to the Mendoza and Atacama lands, in the southernmost reaches of the Empire, corresponding currently with Argentine and Chilean territories. | WIKI |
| From Quito northwards, the Inca presence is perceived in defensive settlements that mark the advance of the Empire by the Ecuadorian provinces of Carchi and Imbabura and the current Narixc3xb1o Department in Colombia, which in the 16th century was in process of being incorporated into the Inca Empire. | WIKI |
| The Incas used the road system for a variety of reasons, from transportation for people who were traveling through the Empire to military and religious purposes. | WIKI |
| [15] The road system allowed for a fast movement of persons from one part of the Empire to the other: both armies and workers used the roads to move and the tambos to rest and be fed. | WIKI |
| The Inca had two main uses of transportation on the roads: the chasqui (runners) for relaying information (through the quipus) and lightweight valuables throughout the Empire and llamas caravans for transporting goods. | WIKI |
| When transporting large amounts of goods across the Empire it was more efficient for the Incas to use herds of llamas and have two or three herdsmen. | WIKI |
| [3]:632 All resources in the Empire were the property of the ruling elite. | WIKI |
| [25]:118 Different sections of the Empire had different resources. | WIKI |
| The roads were used to send out the resources to other parts of the Empire that were in need of them. | WIKI |
| This is one of the reasons why the Inca Empire was so powerful: they not only had a multitude of resources, but a set system to make sure all parts of the Empire were able to obtain what they needed. | WIKI |
| These roads provided easy, reliable and quick routes for the Empire's administrative and military communications, personnel movement, and logistical support. | WIKI |
| [6] The forts or pukaras were mainly located in the border areas, as a spatial indicator of the process of progressing and annexing new territories to the Empire. | WIKI |
| To the south there are abundant remains, around Mendoza in Argentina and along the Maipo river in Chile, where the presence of forts marks the line of the road at the southernmost point of the Empire. | WIKI |
| [31] The historical stage of the Empire begun around 1438 when, having settled the disputes with local populations around Cusco, the Incas started the conquest of the coastal valleys from Nasca to Pachacamac and the other regions of Chinchaysuyu. | WIKI |
| Garcilaso de la Vega[13] underlines the presence of infrastructure on the Inca road system where all across the Empire lodging posts for state officials and chasqui messengers were ubiquitous, well-spaced and well provisioned. | WIKI |
| The fast flow of information was important for an Empire that was in constant expansion. | WIKI |
| It required regular infusions of goods and services from Cusco and other parts of the Empire. | WIKI |
| As a testimony to the Inca Empire, it illustrates thousands of years of cultural evolution and was an omnipresent symbol of the Empirexe2x80x99s strength and extension throughout the Andes. | UNESCO |