Inca army

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The Inca army was the best organized of its time (15-16th centuries). It consisted of several battalions organized, often in large scale numbers. Warriors wore tunics, often with chessboard patterns which was the army's dress. They used several weapons such as:

• Sling, used as distance weapon to kill enemies on distances. Special slinger units were assign to these weapons.
• Clubs, used to break enemies heads as a main weapon.
• Bronze knives, the Incas had not access to iron as Europeans nor obsidian as the Aztecs. They fairly used swords, just shorter weapons.
• The Incas used armors fairly, made of gold which made them not regular equipment nor effective. Mostly sub-officers used them.

The Incas were very well organized in battle. In opposite to the Aztecs, which waged war mainly to take prisoners of war to execute in religious ceremonies, only taking tributes as gain from the defeated people, the Incas aim with war was to kill enemy soldiers and to directly conquer enemy lands, putting it under the rule of the Sapa Inca, who was the highest head of the army. The Incas were also very well organized in military logistics, using magazines owned by the state to supply mass contingents with food, and also white tents as camp, organized in symmetric patterns that imposed on the Europeans, who had not this control nor order in their armies.