USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Incas performed child sacrifices during or after important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca (emperor) or during a famine. Children were selected as sacrificial victims as they were considered to be the purest of beings.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Incas believed the gods had to be kept happy through worship. They held many religious festivals throughout the year, and these involved music, dancing, food, and human sacrifices. The Incas also mummified their dead, since they believed their ancestors continued to watch over the living.

Detailed explanation-3: -It was thought that the gods and the Inca’s ancestors influenced success and failures of any kind in life. Keeping gods and ancestors content and avoiding their wrath in the form of natural disasters like droughts and earthquakes was a very important purpose of Inca religious practices.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Incas carried out some of the most dramatic ceremonies known to us from ancient times. Groups of people walked hundreds of miles across arid and mountainous terrain to perform them on mountains over 20, 000 feet high. The most important offerings made during these pilgrimages involved human sacrifices (capacochas).

Detailed explanation-5: -Momia Juanita (Spanish for “Mummy Juanita"), also known as the Lady of Ampato, is the well-preserved frozen body of a girl from the Inca Empire who was killed as a human sacrifice to the Inca gods sometime between 1440 and 1480, when she was approximately 12–15 years old.