[bksvol-discuss] Re: another question about the Last Days of the Incas
- From: Grandma Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2007 20:50:23 -0700 (PDT)
Usually, at least in books I've validated, e.g., The
Complete Verse of Rudyard Kipling and helping Lissi
with some footnotes in the Tolkien, those words in the
text have asterisks or footnote numbers, and the
explanations are at the bottom of the page. It seems
as if that's the situation here, so, as Shelley said,
put two or three line spaces between the last line of
the text and the definitions, and put each of the
definitions on a separate line. You can put them in a
smaller font, too, if you want, because they're
probably in a smaller font in the print book.
The problem is that the asterisk or footnote number or
whatever probably didn't scan. I've found that to be
the case in books I've validated--the footnote numbers
are so small that often they don't scan. If you can
and are willing, you can put them in yourself. Or I
think--was someone going to get the book to help you?
I can, if you want, but I thought someone else was
going to.
Cindy
--- Scott Berry <sberry@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> I have another question about this book. At the end
> of page 45 there are
> some definitions for words as you will see from the
> insertion I am
> including. I wonder how would it be best to separate
> the definitions
> from the actual text because it could become
> confusing when trying to
> read. I had to read it twice to figure out what was
> up. Here is the page
> which has the definitions:
>
> Pachacuti began rapidly to conquer the amalgam of
> tribes, kingdoms, and
> city-states that lay strewn across the Andes.
> Pachacuti's bold forays
> and those of his son, Tupac Inca, eventually
> culminated in the toppling
> of the old Chimu Empire, located on the northwestern
> coast. Within a
> single lifetime, then, Pachacuti and his son had
> seized a 1,400-mile
> stretch of the Andes, from present-day Bolivia to
> northern Peru, plus
> much of the adjacent coast. No longer were the Incas
> a small, pregnable
> group exposed to the vagaries of other kingdoms'
> marauding armies.
> Pachacuti had become the first Inca king to fashion
> a veritable empire?a
> vast, multiethnic conglomeration that had been
> created through conquest
> and that Pachacuti now ruled over with a tiny band
> of Inca elite.
> Pachacuti called his new empire Tawantinsuyu, or
> "the four parts
> united," as he divided it into four regions:
> Chinchaysuyu, Cuntisuyu,
> Collasuyu, and Antisuyu. The capital, Cuzco, lay at
> the intersection
> where all four suyus came together. In a sense,
> Pachacuti and Tupac Inca
> had created a conquest enterprise. Through threat,
> negotiation, or
> actual bloody conquest, they subjugated new
> provinces, determined the
> number of tax-paying peasants, installed a local
> Inca governor, and then
> left an administration in place that was empowered
> to supervise and
> collect taxes before their armies moved on. If
> cooperative, the local
> elites were allowed to retain their privileged
> positions and were
> rewarded handsomely for their collaboration. If
> uncooperative, the Incas
> exterminated them and wiped out their supporters.
> Peasants were a crop,
> a crop that could be harvested through periodic
> taxation. Docile,
> obedient workers who created surpluses, in fact,
> were a crop more
> valuable than any of the five thousand varieties of
> potatoes the Incas
> cultivated in the Andes, more valuable even than the
> vast herds of
> llamas and alpacas that the Incas periodically used
> for their meat and
> wool. It was the peasants and their associated lands
> that the Incas
> coveted, and it was by taxing the peasants' labor
> that the Inca elite
> continued to increase their wealth, prestige, and
> power.
> Tupac Inca, who had carried out successful campaigns
> in the north and on
> the coast, also succeeded in extending the Inca
> Empire farther east,
> marching from the high frigid plains of the Andes
> down into the sweltering
> Tttwantin in the Inca language, Quechua, means a
> group of four things
> (tawa means four with the suffix -ruin, which names
> a group; and suyu,
> which means "part").
> 45
>
>
>
> Scott
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