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Inca Inca - a ruler of the Incas (or a member of his family) Huayna Capac - the Incan ruler under whom the Incan empire reached its widest extent (died in 1525) ruler, swayer - a person who rules or commands; swayer of the universe. Incan, Inka.
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- The Inca were the largest pre-hispanic empire of South America when it was 'discovered' by the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century AD.
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Inca Empire The Inca Empire, also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America, and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century. Its political and administrative structure was the most sophisticated found among native peoples in the Americas. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century
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Inca Under the empire the Inca religion was a highly organized state religion, but, while worship of the sun god and the rendering of service were required of subject peoples, their native religions were tolerated. Inca rituals included elaborate forms of divination and the sacrifice of humans and animals.
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Empire Cuzco was the center of the Incan empire. The Incas, an American Indian people, were originally a small tribe in the southern highlands of Peru. In less than a century, during the 1400s, they built one of the largest, most tightly controlled empires the world has ever known.any different languages were spoken in ancient Peru. The Incas of Cuzco spoke Quechua (KETCH-wah). To unify the empire, they spread the language, and as a result Quechua became, and still is, the most widely spoken Indian language in the Americas.
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Inca Empire The Inca Empire, or Inka Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru.
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- In 1500 C.E., the Inca Empire was the biggest, wealthiest civilization in Mesoamerica. They ruled over a diverse area of mountains and rain forest, some 2,500 miles in length. Hundreds of tribes with varying languages were commanded by the Inca from the capital city of Cuzco.Yet, by 1532 the Inca Empire was gone.he Inca called their empire Tahuantinsuyu, or Land of the Four Quarters. It stretched 2,500 miles from Quito, Ecuador, to beyond Santiago, Chile. Within its domain were rich coastal settlements, high mountain valleys, rain-drenched tropical forests and the driest of deserts.
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- The Incas were a South American Indian tribe. They lived in the  area that is now known as the countries of Columbia, Argentina,  Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador and Peru.he Incas were an Amerindian nation centered in what is now Peru in South America. They lost their independence when Spanish explorers arrived in the 16th century.
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Inca Rulers The Inca rulers were venerated by the Incas, who considered them demigods, persons with deep connection with the gods. The Incas called their rulers Sapa, which meant The Only One and also Apu, which meant Divinity.
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- Voiceover: By the 1530s, the Inca Empire was enormous. It stretched along the length of the Andes, from modern-day Ecuador to central Chile, a distance of 2,500 miles. But just 500 miles to the north began the colonies of Central America and the Caribbean – prized possessions of the Spanish empire.
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Mit'a [ˈmɪˌtʼa]) was mandatory public service in the society of the Inca Empire. Historians use the hispanicized term mita to differentiate the system as it was modified and intensified by the Spanish colonial government, creating the encomienda system.
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Who were the Incas? Where did the Incas come from? The Incas were a civilization in South America formed by ethnic Quechua people also known as Amerindians. In 1400AD they were a small highland tribe, one hundred years later in the early 16 th century the Incas rose to conquer and control the largest empire ever seen in the Americas forming the great Inca Empire.
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Inca Empire The Inca Empire was a federalist system consisting of a central government with the Inca at its head and four quarters, or suyu: Chinchay Suyu (NW), Anti Suyu (NE), Kunti Suyu (SW) and Qulla Suyu (SE). The four corners of these quarters met at the center, Cusco.
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Inca Empire The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, The Four Regions), also known as the Incan Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru.The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century, and the last Inca stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.he administrative, political, and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century, and the last Inca stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.
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Inca Empire The Incas were most notable for establishing the Inca Empire in pre-Columbian America, which was centered in what is now Peru from 1438 to 1533 C.E. and represented the height of the Inca civilization.upac Túpac'inca s empire stretched north into-modern Day ecuador And. Colombia Tupac'túpac inca S Son huayna capac cápac added significant territory. To the south, At its Height tahuantinsuyu Included, peru and bolivia most of What, is now ecuador a large-portion Of, modern day chile and extended Into corners Of. argentina and colombia
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Inca Empire The Inca people were a pastoral tribe in the Cusco area around the 12th century. Under the leadership of Manco Capac, cápac they formed the small-city State kingdom Of (Cusco Quechua', Qusqu). qosqo
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Inca road system The Qhapaq Ñan (English: Great Inca Road, or Main Andean Road, and meaning the beautiful road) constituted the principal north-south highway of the Inca Empire traveling 6,000 kilometres (3,700 mi) along the spine of the Andes.
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The Incas: History of Andean Empire One of the Inca civilization's most famous surviving archaeological sites is Machu Picchu, which was built as a retreat for an Incan emperor. The Incas called their empire Tawantinsuyu, the “Land of the Four Corners,” and its official language was Quechua. The empire was divided up into four “suyu,” which intersected at the capital, Cuzco. These suyu in turn were divided into provinces.
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Rise of the Inca One of the names the Inca ruler took on translates from the Quechua as lover and benefactor of the poor.. This was manifested in practical terms by giving the people all the food and drink they needed while they were carrying out their labors on behalf of the state.
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Viracocha Viracocha is the great creator deity in the pre-Inca and Inca mythology in the Andes region of South America. Full name and some spelling alternatives are Wiracocha, Apu Qun Tiqsi Wiraqutra, and Con-Tici (also spelled Kon-Tiki, the source of the name of Thor Heyerdahl's raft) Viracocha.n the Quechua language tiqsi means foundation or base, wira means fat, and qucha means lake, sea, or reservoir. Viracocha's many epithets include great, all knowing, powerful, etc. Wiraqucha could mean Fat (or foam) of the sea .
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The Incas The Incas were a very distinct civilization. Their diverse geography, brutal military, amazing culture, complex political systems, and vast economics brought them to power with an iron fist. Their fields of astrology, science, and mathematics also brought a new outlook on many different theories created by modern scientists.
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- Based in the highlands of Peru, an area now called the punas, the ancestors of the Incas probably began as a nomadic herding people. Adaptation to the altitude led to distinctive physical developments. Short and stocky, men averaged 1.57 m (5'2) and women 1.45 m (4'9).
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The Incas: History of Andean Empire One of the Inca civilization's most famous surviving archaeological sites is Machu Picchu, which was built as a retreat for an Incan emperor. The Incas called their empire Tawantinsuyu, the “Land of the Four Corners,” and its official language was Quechua.The empire was divided up into four “suyu,” which intersected at the capital, Cuzco. These suyu in turn were divided into provinces.nca oral history, recorded by the Spanish, suggests that the expansion of the Inca began in earnest during the reign of the emperor Pachacuti, who reigned 1438-1471.
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Inca Empire The Inca Empire was a federalist system consisting of a central government with the Inca at its head and four quarters, or suyu: Chinchay Suyu (NW), Anti Suyu (NE), Kunti Suyu (SW) and Qulla Suyu (SE).