s much as their neighbors to the north. "Human sacrifice was reserved for the most important occasions or the darkest catastrophe." For example, "The crowning of a new emperor, Pachacuti decreed, would involve the sacrifice of two hundred perfectly formed and unblemished children. Famine, disease, or military defeat also necessitated a sacrifice." The Inca also had a perfect farming system. They overcame the difficulty of farming on mountains by terrace farming. Farming for the Incas was "a difficulty the Incas overcame by building thousands of terraces into the mountainsides and then filling them with soil carried from the few scattered, fertile valleys." Maize, cotton, and potatoes were the three major crops of the Inca. The Inca government was also an outstanding point in their society. Pachacuti started a system of government where everyone had a task. He told them that to do their task meant they were Viracocha, the Sun God, which the people believed was whoever the ruler was. The Inca empire is a very communism-like form of government. This is seen quite a bit in the way they share instead of trade or sell their crops. The Inca people did their duties within the empire for the greater good.
             The Inca empire finally came to an end under the rule of Atahualpa. While civil war raged within the empire, Francisco Pizarro and his Spanish troops savagely destroyed the Inca. The invasions of the empire made Pizarro tremendously wealthy. The Spanish raided the Inca temples and took any treasure they could find. The Inca empire was left in ruins after the invasion of Pizarro and the Spanish.
             Although the Inca empire was great, credit is not being given to other tribes where it should be given. The customs and rituals practiced by the Inca are not, in any way, things they can call their own. The Incas were also well known for conquering other tribes in South America. The Inca empire was home to about twelve million people. Three m...