use a diviner who would place braziers opposite from each other. The fire chanter called for the spirits of the living and dead to help him. To help lure them, food and drink was used. The diviners questioned the spirit and through ventriloquism, voiced their replies. At that very instant, assistants who were hidden behind walls blew in a tube that controlled the fires. That way, they could make the fire rise and fall with the replies making it seem very magical.The Inca also believed in good magic and bad magic. Men who practiced bad magic were hated and feared and if found guilty of evil, he and his family were sentenced to death. To bring sickness or death, the sorcerer had to make an image of a person and spit on it. Disease could only be cured through magic and prayer because it was to be a result of sorcery. They used plants to heal but they had no knowledge about chemicals. They though that plants had magic to cure illness.Like any ancient empires, both the Inca and Aztec's system of government and society was quite harsh. They both gave absolute power to their leaders and they both had assistants to help them.The Inca believed that power came directly from the Sun god. They managed to achieve a political and government system unsurpassed by any Indian tribe. They had a system of a theocracy that was agriculturally based and dominated by the Inca. The power fell from the Inca (emperor), to the royal family and upper aristocracy, then to the imperial administrators and petty nobility, and finally, the artisans and farm laborers.The Inca also decided to divide their entire empire into four quarters. These regions were divided into sub-regions and lesser socioeconomic regions of which the smallest was the family landholding known as an allya. In each village, overseers were responsible for ten families. Those responsible for families had to keep track of marriages, deaths, and births in the families. Above the over...
