Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'Qhapaq Ñan, Andean Road System' has mentioned 'Inca Empire' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
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| Transportation system of the Inca empire | WIKI |
| Inca Empire Inca society Educationxc2xa0xc2xb7 Religionxc2xa0xc2xb7 Mythology Architecturexc2xa0xc2xb7 Engineeringxc2xa0xc2xb7 Roads Armyxc2xa0xc2xb7 Agriculturexc2xa0xc2xb7 Cuisine Inca history Kingdom of Cuscoxc2xa0xc2xb7 Inca Empire (Chimorxe2x80x93Inca Warxc2xa0xc2xb7 Invasion of Chilexc2xa0xc2xb7 Civil Warxc2xa0xc2xb7 Spanish conquest) Neo-Inca State vte | WIKI |
| [6] The road system allowed for the transfer of information, goods, soldiers and persons, without the use of wheels, within the Tawantinsuyu or Inca Empire throughout a territory with an extension was almost 2,000,000xc2xa0km2 (770,000xc2xa0sqxc2xa0mi)[7] and inhabited by about 12 million people. | WIKI |
| Towards the boundaries of the Inca Empire and in new conquered areas pukaras (fortresses) were found. | WIKI |
| Part of the road network was built by cultures that precede the Inca Empire, notably the Wari culture in the northern central Peru and the Tiwanaku culture in Bolivia. | WIKI |
| Contents 1 Extent 1.1 The four routes 2 Purposes of the road 2.1 Transportation 2.2 Trade 2.3 Military 2.4 Religious 3 History 3.1 Inca Empire era 3.2 Colonial era 3.3 Post-colonial and modern times 4 Architecture and engineering of the Inca roads 4.1 Construction and maintenance 4.2 Architectural components 4.2.1 Roadway and pavement 4.2.2 Side walls and stone rows 4.2.3 Furrows 4.2.4 Retaining walls 4.2.5 Drainage 4.2.6 Road marks 4.2.7 Paintings and mock-ups 4.3 Causeways 4.4 Stairways 4.5 Bridges 4.6 Tunnel 4.7 Equipment 5 Inca Trail to Machu Picchu 6 See also 7 Notes 8 References 9 Bibliography 10 Further reading 11 External links | WIKI |
| Road system of the Inca Empire | WIKI |
| Cusco, Peru - plaque indicating the 4 directions of the 4 regions (suyus) of the Inca Empire | WIKI |
| During the Inca Empire the roads officially stemmed from Cusco into the 4 cardinal directions towards the 4 suyus (provinces) into which the Tawantinsuyu was divided. | WIKI |
| The route towards the North was the most important in the Inca Empire, as shown by its constructive characteristics: a width ranging between 3 and 16 m[10]:108 and the size of the archaeological vestiges that mark the way both in its vicinity and in its area of influence. | 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 true physical extension of the Inca Empire for this region is not very clear. | WIKI |
| According to Hyslop[10] the roads were the basis for the expansion of the Inca Empire: the most important settlements were located on the main roads, following a provision prefigured by the existence of older roads. | WIKI |
| The redistribution of goods was known as vertical archipelago: this system was the basis for trade throughout the Inca Empire. | 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 |
| Inca Empire era[edit] | WIKI |
| In this context, only those routes that covered the new needs were used, abandoning the rest, particularly those that connected to the forts built during the advance of the Inca Empire or those that linked the agricultural spaces with the administrative centres. | WIKI |
| The manpower required for both construction and maintenance was obtained through the mita: a sort of tax work, provided to the state by the conquered people, by which the Inca Empire produced the required goods and performed the necessary services, which included the upkeep of roads and their relevant infrastructures (bridges, tambos, warehouses, etc.). | WIKI |
| The road network was the life giving support to the Inca Empire integrated into the Andean landscape. | UNESCO |
| 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 |