Inca Political organization
Political organization of the Incas
The empire was organized pyramid, the head of which was the Inca, to be of divine origin, of the Sun descendiente4 His power was absolute.
The sovereign access to the power, he renounced his family and founded his own lineage, whose descendants are subsequently integrated into the imperial aristocracy, formed in turn by the descendants of former heads of tribes and villages assimilated Empire and the curaca (charges were hereditary aristocracy).
The Inca used to marry the daughter of a tribal chief neighbor, but when the empire reached its greatest splendor of the Inca divinal degree only admitted as a wife a woman of her own blood, his sister, however, the Inca and the nobility were polygamous .
Inca Inca chose the most beautiful girls of all ayllus for their harems, the choice was not offered as virgins of the sun, and were in the service of the temples and were rewarded by some distinguished curaca. There being no law of succession, the death of the Inca was a real chaos was not imposed until one of the hopefuls, but usually the sovereign chose his successor among children born with barbimaloy (empress).
The sons of the concubines were a new royal ayllu of the best and attained high positions with civilian, military or the priesthood. The Inca lived in Cuzco, in a splendid palace, and their travel was carried on litter carried by curaca shoulders. At the ceremonies, the person was under the same reverence that a god. At his death it was mummified and preserved mummy in Coricancha (the Temple of the Sun in Cuzco), and displayed in the main square of the city into the most solemn ceremonies.
