D&D General 5 Cool Facts About the Inca and How to Use Them in D&D

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

They also had precursor civilizations. Forget the names but they had one before them and a precursor to the precursor.

The Wari and Tiwanaku were the main ones before them. The first civilization in the Americas, the Norte Chico, were also from Peru and were older than Egyptian civilization. And, unlike other cradles of civilization, food crops were not the main source of food for the Norte Chico civilization. Fish was, comprising 90% of their diet. Their main agricultural product was cotton, which they used to make nets to catch fish.

The Inca inherited the Khipu, terraces, and road systems from the Wari. Tiwanaku had chuño and some of the same gods as the Inca. Norte Chico might have had the Staff God that was common throughout the Andes. There are other similarities and influences, too. Lots of Andean cultures did mummification, for example.

We don’t know as much about a lot of these earlier cultures as we do about the Inca.

 

[Azzy]

Good stuff! Most of my knowledge of the Inca and other Andean Cultures comes from the Ancient Americas Youtube channel. But I did take inspiration from (albeit, mostly superficially) the Inca (architecture, roads, terraced farming, khipu, etc.) for an elven culture in my homebrew setting.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Good stuff! Most of my knowledge of the Inca and other Andean Cultures comes from the Ancient Americas Youtube channel. But I did take inspiration from (albeit, mostly superficially) the Inca (architecture, roads, terraced farming, khipu, etc.) for an elven culture in my homebrew setting.

I love Ancient Americas! I’ve been watching a ton of their videos recently.

The Inca have been a major inspiration for the main mountainous culture of my setting, which is mainly comprised of dwarves, halflings, goliaths and humans. I’ve taken inspiration from a variety of real world mountainous cultures, but the Inca and Tibetans are the main influences. I started reading about the Inca because I wanted to be accurate and respectful in my depiction of the culture.

 

[Zardnaar]

The Wari and Tiwanaku were the main ones before them. The first civilization in the Americas, the Norte Chico, were also from Peru and were older than Egyptian civilization. And, unlike other cradles of civilization, food crops were not the main source of food for the Norte Chico civilization. Fish was, comprising 90% of their diet. Their main agricultural product was cotton, which they used to make nets to catch fish.

The Inca inherited the Khipu, terraces, and road systems from the Wari. Tiwanaku had chuño and some of the same gods as the Inca. Norte Chico might have had the Staff God that was common throughout the Andes. There are other similarities and influences, too. Lots of Andean cultures did mummification, for example.

We don’t know as much about a lot of these earlier cultures as we do about the Inca.

Wari and Tiwanaku sound about right.

And Chimu as a contemporary rival until Inca won.

I was reading wiki on Waru iirc about a month ago.