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blakeg5

THE INCA STRUGGLE - disease, defeat, religion - 10 views

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  • illnesses such as smallpox, measles, typhus, scarlet fever and influenza
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      HERE IS A GOOD NOTE!
  • A smallpox epidemic accompanied the Spanish conquest of Mexico and then continued south where it ravaged Inca communities and killed the reigning Inca ruler in 1525.
  • A smallpox epidemic accompanied the Spanish conquest of Mexico and then continued south where it ravaged Inca communities and killed the reigning Inca ruler in 1525
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  • A smallpox epidemic accompanied the Spanish conquest of Mexico and then continued south where it ravaged Inca communities and killed the reigning Inca ruler in 1525.
  • smallpox, measles, typhus, scarlet fever and influenza
  • illnesses such as smallpox, measles, typhus, scarlet fever and influenza
  • l of their vast Inca empire, as the ‘navel of the world’. It was the place of all major idols and temples of Inca civilisation and had been designed by the ninth Inca king, Pachacuti Inca Yupanque.
  • f the pestilence was an acceptance of European superiority and obedience to the commands of priests, landowners and tax collectors. The Spanish achieved their wealth and superior position through the labour of the Indians and established an oligarchy in South America. The Spanish colonial system
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mullpres

Inca Encyclopedia Block C [licensed for non-commercial use only] / Medicine - 2 views

  • he Inca were very skillful people in medicine. The Incas believed that being sick was either a punishment from the gods or evil magic. The only way to cure the sickness was to go to a doctor or by magic. Every year disease and evil would be banished from Cuzco during the Situa Festival. The Situa Festival consisted of several day
  • The Inca medicine was amazing. The Inca doctors were consistently finding new herbs, minerals and trying new remedies and improving the old ones. The Inca doctors were in search for many new answers for great medical development and the healing power of the Inca medicine was extraordinary. As well as the religion and magical spells had a great part of treatment, which helped the patient believe he/she was cured. The fact that the person believed that they were cured freed endorphins in the blood stream, helping the body heal. 
aobrecht

Inca Medicine ~ IACES News about Sciences and Health Specialities - 0 views

  • sadness, melancholy, mentally illnesses, severe afflictions of behavior, anger, cowardice, regret, anxiety, grief, pathological fear, dementia, severe psychotic disorders like madness, insanity, idiocy and hysteria; Just to mention a few of them.
mcarl2019

inca ifection-dailymail - 2 views

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    tuberculosis
aobrecht

The Decline of the Inca - Historum - History Forums - 27 views

  • diseases came about from the Europeans and killed many more, such as flu, typhus, and many more.
  • Small Pox
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    Gives several diseases
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    List of Diseases
cyclone19

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2179217/Inca-ice-maiden-frozen-human-sac... - 0 views

Women was found with infection still in her lungs after she was frozen from a sacrifice.

Inca Mummy

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kastgre19

Inca Food - 0 views

  • guinea pig which were often cooked by stuffing hot stones inside them
  • . The entrails would often be used as an ingredient in soups along with potatoes, or made into a sauce.
bfink2019

Guns Germs & Steel: Variables. Smallpox | PBS - 0 views

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    diseases
samcfoster

3_3 European Disease in the New World - 0 views

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    diseases
johansen19

An Incan Feast Before Death | Science/AAAS | News - 0 views

  • Now, a chemical analysis of four Incan mummies finds that children were fattened before being sacrificed
  • Andes have found shrines containing the frozen, mummified bodies of children adorned with necklaces, headdresses, and bracelets.
  • Others appear to have been left to die in the cold.
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  • 15-year-old girl, a 7-year-old boy, and a 6-year-old dubbed Lightning Girl because her corpse had been struck by lightning.
  • researchers found more sacrificed children on top of Argentina's Llullaillaco volcano: a
  • 15-year-old girl, a 7-
briantrevino

Peru: Cuzco-Machu Picchu - Chapter 4 - 2014 Yellow Book | Travelers' Health | CDC - 0 views

  • Important pre-travel information for Peru includes advice on preventing high-altitude illness, the risk for cutaneous leishmaniasis in certain jungle areas, use of yellow fever vaccine in some areas, and the risk of malaria for travelers visiting popular jungle lodges.
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    Peru includes advice on Preventing high-altitude illness. 
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