can you tell me a social studies project I can do on the Incas?
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Agriculture, engineering, religion, art.....Macchu Picchu\n\nyou could recreate some of the art....or the language (i read they used knots in ropes to communicate?) or a recreation of macchu picchu....\n\ntry www.wsu.edu
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Print out some pictures - of kenya and of starvation, if possible starving people in Africa and then stitch out yr prez based on 'em. Give reasons how it can be solved - show some pics of organizations who do just that.
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The most powerful figure in the empire was the Sapa Inca ('the unique Inca'). Only descendants of the original Inca tribe ever ascended to the level of Inca. Most young members of the Inca's family attended Yachayhuasis (houses of knowledge) to obtain their education.\n\nThe Tahuantinsuyu was a federalist system which consisted of a central government with the Inca at its head and four provinces: Chinchaysuyu (NW), Antisuyu (NE), Qontisuyu (SW), and Qollasuyu (SE). The four corners of these provinces met at the center, Cuzco. Each province had a governor who oversaw local officials, who in turn supervised agriculturally-productive river valleys, cities and mines. There were separate chains of command for both the military and religious institutions, which created a system of partial checks and balances on power. The local officials were responsible for settling disputes and keeping track of each family's contribution to the mita (mandatory public service).\n\nOf the Inca arts, Architecture was by far the most important, with pottery and textiles reflecting motifs that were at their height in architecture. The main example is Machu Picchu. The stone temples constructed by the Inca used a mortarless construction process first used on a large scale by the Tiwanaku. The Inca imported the stoneworkers of the Tiwanaku region to Cusco when they conquered the lands south of Lake Titicaca. The rocks used in construction were sculpted to fit together exactly by repeatedly lowering a rock onto another and carving away any sections on the lower rock where the dust was compressed. The tight fit and the concavity on the lower rocks made them extraordinarily stable in the frequent earthquakes that hit the area. The Inca used straight walls except on important religious sites and constructed whole towns at once.\n\n \nThe Inca made many discoveries in medicine. They performed successful skull surgery, which involved cutting holes in the skull to release pressure from head wounds. Coca leaves were used to lessen hunger and pain, as they still are in the Andes. The Chasqui (messengers) chewed coca leaves for extra energy to carry on their tasks as runners delivering messages throughout the empire.\n\nThe Inca diet consisted primarily of fish and vegetables, supplemented less frequently with the meat of cuyes (guinea pigs) and camelids. In addition, they hunted various animals for meat, skins and feathers. Maize was malted and used to make chicha, a fermented alcoholic beverage. The Inca road system was key to farming success as it allowed distribution of foodstuffs over long distances. The Inca also constructed vast storehouses, which allowed them to live through El Niño years in style while neighboring civilizations suffered.\n\nThe Inca believed in reincarnation. Those who obeyed the Incan moral code — ama suwa, ama llulla, ama quella (do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy) — went to live in the Sun's warmth. Others spent their eternal days in the cold earth. The Inca also practiced cranial deformation. They achieved this by wrapping tight cloth straps around the heads of newborns in order to alter the shape of their still-soft skulls. These deformations did not result in brain damage.
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Inca Life & Achievement\n\nIn less than a century, the Incas developed and knitted together a vast empire peopled by something like twenty million Indians. They established an imperial religion in some harmony with those of their subject tribes; erected monolithic fortresses, salubrious palaces and temples; and, astonishingly, evolved a viable economy - strong enough to maintain a top-heavy elite in almost godlike grandeur. To understand these achievements and get some idea of what they must have meant in Peru five or six hundred years ago, you really have to see for yourself their surviving heritage: the stones of Inca ruins and roads; the cultural objects in the museums of Lima and Cusco; and their living descendants who still work the soil and speak Quechua - the language used by the Incas to unify their empire. We've included but the briefest of introductions to their history, society and achievements.\n\nInca society The Inca Empire rapidly developed a hierarchical structure . At the highest level it was governed by the Sapa Inca , son of the sun and direct descendant of the god Viracocha.\n\nExpansion and control\nIn Inca eyes the known world was their empire, and expansion therefore limitless. They divided their territories into four basic regions, or suyos , each radiating from the central plaza in Cusco: Chincha Suyo (northwest), Anit Suyo (northeast), Cunti Suyo (southwest) and Colla Suyo (southeast). Each suyo naturally had its own particular problems and characteristics but all were approached in the same way - initially being demoralized or forced into submission by the Inca army, later absorbed as allies for further conquests. In this way the Incas never seemed to overextend their lines to the fighting front.\n\nEconomy, agriculture and building\nThe main resources available to the Inca Empire were agricultural land and labour, mines (producing precious and prestigious metals such as gold, silver or copper), and fresh water, abundant everywhere except along the desert coast. With careful manipulation of these resources, the Incas managed to keep things moving the way they wanted. Tribute in the form of service ( mita) played a crucial role in maintaining the empire and pressurizing its subjects into ambitious building and irrigation projects. Some of these projects were so grand that they would have been impossible without the demanding whip of a totalitarian state.\n\nArts and crafts\nSurprisingly, perhaps, Inca masonry was very rarely carved or adorned in any way. Smaller stone items, however, were frequently ornate and beautiful. High technical standards were achieved, too, in pottery . Around Cusco especially, the art of creating and glazing ceramics was highly developed. They were not so advanced artistically, however; Inca designs generally lack imagination and variety, tending to have been mass-produced from models evolved by previous cultures. The most common pottery object was the aryballus, a large jar with a conical base and a wide neck thought to have been used chiefly for storing chicha. Its decoration was usually geometric, often associated with the backbone of a fish; the central spine of the pattern was adorned with rows of spikes radiating from either side. Fine plates were made with anthropomorphic handles, and large numbers of cylindrically tapering goblets - keros - were manufactured, though these were often of cedar wood rather than pottery.\n\nReligion\nThe Inca religion was easily capable of incorporating the religious features of most subjugated regions. The setting for beliefs, idols and oracles, more or less throughout the entire empire, had been preordained over the previous two thousand years: a general recognition of certain creator deities and a whole pantheon of nature-related spirits, minor deities and demons. The customary form of worship varied a little according to the locality, but everywhere they went the Incas (and later the Spanish) found the creator god among other anim
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You should be able to find a lot of indigenous peoples myths from the various hubs of human civilisation at this site:\nhttp://yahooligans.yahoo.com/School_Bell/Social_Studies/Mythology_and_Folklore/Mythology/
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whats the subject? i could probly giv you some ideas, my dads a history nut! ^^
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Using Copernic Agent Professional (with a ton of search engines) I found a plethora of information and sites about plantations during the Civil War. Good luck on your project!
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This website should give you more than enough ideas for your project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada#History\n\nGood Luck!!!
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You could do a presentation about their art. There is quite a bit information and pictures on the site listed below.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maya_civilization...this might help u...i hav not got much idea abt civilizations...
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You can do a project on the natural calamities happening in a particular place, the cause of the calamities and actions to be taken for that. It would be fun and you'll learn a lot.
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This link will take you to an excellent article on Machu Picchu.
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How about...the history of small countries in Southeast Asia?  Or the pleasures of bicycling?  The Punic Wars?  Canadians' ideas about the US?  Life in Japan?  Unique wildlife of Australia?  Modern-day piracy in the Straits of Malacca?\nThat's all I can think of in 1 1/2 minutes.
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Interesting stuff.  I wouldn't mind if we were not alone in the universe. I found some discussion of this stuff on the internet, but if you have better sources, please post them \nThis is an article about Inca stones and the whole archeological find \nhttp://www.labyrinthina.com/ica.htm\nsome pictures here. about 1/4 down the page\nhttp://www.raphaelk.co.uk/web%20pics/Peru/Peru.htm
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try these websites\n\nhttp://library.thinkquest.org/13406/sr/\n\nhttp://www.silkroadproject.org/silkroad/map.html\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road\n\nhttp://www.humboldt.edu/~geog309i/ideas/raysilk.html\n\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.warriortours.com/images/map/silkroad.gif&imgrefurl=http://www.warriortours.com/silkroad/route.htm&h=380&w=600&sz=25&hl=en&start=13&tbnid=kBgBj9WFM-R09M:&tbnh=86&tbnw=135&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSilk%2BRoad%2Broute%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-19,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN\n\nhttp://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://studyrussian.com/seidenstrasse/pic/map_s.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.studyrussian.com/seidenstrasse/silkroad/&h=295&w=407&sz=32&hl=en&start=10&tbnid=1dmfu0c1413tCM:&tbnh=91&tbnw=125&prev=/images%3Fq%3DSilk%2BRoad%2Broute%26svnum%3D10%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26rls%3DGGLG,GGLG:2006-19,GGLG:en%26sa%3DN\n\n\nGOOD LUCK
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I have seen two great research project done by students:\n\n1. Research the history, symbolism, and meaning behind the Sugar Hill Gangs "Rapper's Delight." Question such as, "What is the true meaning of Rapper's Delight" or "What is the cultural signifacance of Rapper's Delight."\n\n2. "How did Nachos come to be?"\n\nOh and one last idea: What about researching where all our social idioms come from (for ex: raining cats and dogs, kicked the bucket, hit the lights...)\n\nGood luck with your project!
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The legendary 'Lost City of Machu Picchu' is without a doubt the most important tourist attraction in Peru and one of the world's most impressive archaeological sites. \nMachu Picchu is also one of the Inca's best kept secrets, since they did not left written records and Spanish chronicles make no mention of the citadel, it remains a mystery. Discovered only in 1911 by the American Yale professor Hiram Bingham. The building style is "late imperial Inca" thought to have been a sanctuary or temple inhabited by high priests and the "Virgins of the Sun" (chosen women). Excavations revealed that of the 135 skeletons found,109 were women. No signs of post Conquest occupation were unearthed. \nthat makes machu pucchu so mysterius.