A defeat for this empire is depicted on the cover of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel.
A history of this non-European empire is structured as a 1400-page letter to a monarch who never read it and is titled New Chronicle and Good Government. Some record-keeping documents from this empire were allegedly forged by Clara Miccinelli. This empire's failure to use stairs to delay horse-riding enemies is noted in a history by Charles Mann, which examines the strife that ensued when one of its rulers died in an epidemic. A history of this empire is the best-known work of the non-poet Garcilaso de la Vega. A defeat for this empire is depicted on the cover of Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. This empire called itself the "Land of Four Corners" or Tawantinsuyu ("tah-wan-teen-SOO-yoo") and kept records on knotted-string devices burned en masse during colonial times, called khipus ("KEE-poos"). For 10 points, name this empire whose capital was Cusco.
A history of this non-European empire is structured as a 1400-page letter to a monarch who never read it and is titled New Chronicle and Good Government.
Inca empire [or Incan empire; accept Tawantinsuyu until read] &lt;Historio/Archaeo&gt;