Southward along the coast and highlands of Ecuador and Peru, sprawl across highlandīolivia into northwestern Argentina, and reach down into central Chile to just below Map of modern South America, it would begin on Colombia's southern frontier, stretch The Inca Empire measured more than 4,000 km from end to end. ' It has been estimated that Andean Indians domesticated as many as 70 separate crop This botanical colonialism closed off from the rest of the world a Widely adaptable, extremely nutritious, and remarkably tasty foods. Respect, research, or commercial advancement. Lacking a modern constituency, they have received little scientific The highlands during the almost 500 years since Pizarro's conquest. Plants such as oca, mace, tarwi, nunas, and lucuma have remained in Grains, three legumes, and more than a dozen fruits. Species (notably wheat, barley, carrots, and broad beans) that theįorced into obscurity were at least a dozen native root crops, three Society for thousands of years were deliberately replaced by European Crops that had held honored positions in Indian They considered the natives to beīackward and uncreative. Repressed the Indians, suppressed their traditions, and destroyed much Organization, it was usual to have 3-7 years' supply of food in storage.īut Pizarro and most of the later Spaniards who conquered Peru Throughout the vast Inca Empire, sprawling from southernĬolombia to central Chile an area as great as that governed by RomeĪt its zeniths storehouses overflowed with grains and dried tubers.īecause of the Inca's productive agriculture and remarkable public
Million or more people- roughly as many as inhabit the highlands Indians terraced and irrigated and produced abundant food for fifteen Without money, iron, wheels, or work animals for plowing, the Wealth of roots, grains, legumes, vegetables, fruits, and nuts. Mountainsides up to four kilometers high along the spine of a wholeĬontinent and in climates varying from tropical to polar, they grew a Many species of plants as the farmers of all Asia or Europe.' On Because it is UNCORRECTED material, please consider the following text as a useful but insufficient proxy for the authoritative book pages.Īt the time of the Spanish conquest, the Incas cultivated almost as Below is the uncorrected machine-read text of this chapter, intended to provide our own search engines and external engines with highly rich, chapter-representative searchable text of each book.
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