Inca-Impacts On Food System

Social Impacts

Farming got many of the different people of the civilization together to complete one goal and that goal being farming to make sure there is enough food for everyone in the civilization to be fed. Also according to http://library.thinkquest.org/C005446/Food/English/inca.html there where celebrations like a potluck ritual, families would each come up with their own stew and they would sit in two long lines facing each other and share a dinner. 

Economic Impacts

A strange thing about the Incas would be that they had no trading within the civilization. They would only trade with outsiders and never with the people of their culture. They also had no form of money. They way the worker payed taxes would be with labor. As long as you did your job, everything would be provided for you. Many people argue about what kind of civilization the Inca lived in. Some people say it was a socialist state, others an authoritarian monarchy, and even a empire.

Environmental Impacts

Not only did the Inca farm and herd animals, they also mined. Because of this mining they managed to pollute the water used for drinking and farming with cinnabar , a mercury containing ore and contaminated the soil and water. The also of course had to convert the native land to suit their farming needs meaning clearing an area that they used for farming.