Inca technology includes devices, technologies and construction methods used by the Inca people of western South America (between the 1100s and their conquest...
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The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts"), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian...
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Inca architecture is the most significant pre-Columbian architecture in South America. The Incas inherited an architectural legacy from Tiwanaku, founded...
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The Inca aqueducts refer to any of a series of aqueducts built by the Inca people. The Inca built such structures to increase arable land and provide...
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The Inca army (Quechua: Inka Awqaqkuna) was the multi-ethnic armed forces used by the Tawantin Suyu to expand its empire and defend the sovereignty of...
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The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the...
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The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and known as Qhapaq Ñan meaning "royal road" in Quechua) was the most extensive and advanced transportation...
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The Inca society was the society of the Inca civilization in Peru. The Inca Empire, which lasted from 1438 to 1533 A.D., represented the height of this...
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environments were all part of the Inca Empire (1438-1533 CE) and required different technologies for agriculture. Inca agriculture was also characterized...
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Technology is the application of conceptual knowledge to achieve practical goals, especially in a reproducible way. The word technology can also mean...
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Machu Picchu (redirect from Idol of the Incas)
Machu Picchu is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). Often referred...
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Andean civilizations (redirect from Inca people)
Less than a century prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the Incas, from their homeland centered on the city of Cusco, united most Andean cultures...
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The economy of the Inca Empire, which lasted from 1438 to 1532, was based on local traditions of "solidarity" and "mutualism", transported to an imperial...
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adoption of ceramic technology until conquest, around 1400 to 1450 AD, is called the "Initial Period Manachaqui phase". Following the Inca conquest, there...
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INCA Internet Corporation (Korean: 잉카인터넷), also known as nProtect, is a corporation which sells computer software. INCA Internet was founded by Young...
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pastoralism and the Inca state is a matter of research. As a third point Troll pointed out irrigation technology as advantageous to the Inca state-building...
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in stone and flint. Like the Inca, the Maya also had command of fairly advanced agricultural and construction technology. The Maya are also responsible...
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Physalis peruviana (redirect from Inca berry)
on Technology Innovation, Board on Science and Technology for International Development, National Research Council (1989). Lost Crops of the Incas: Little-Known...
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Cajamarca (category 15th-century establishments in the Inca civilization)
Baños del Inca (Baths of the Inca). The history of the city is highlighted by the Battle of Cajamarca, which marked the defeat of the Inca Empire by Spanish...
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(2015). The Incas (2nd ed.). Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 318–319. Keatinge, R. W. (1988). Peruvian Prehistory: An overview of pre-Inca and Inca society. Cambridge...
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inhabitants of the small village of Yerba Buena, who were promised favors from "Inca gods" in the mountains, the cult came to include Aztec-inspired human sacrifices...
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one of the four sons of Pirua Wiracocha, creator god of civilization in Inca mythology JPL · 5056 5057 Weeks 1987 DC6 Eric R. Weeks (born 1970), a professor...
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The Inca Garcilaso de la Vega University (UIGV) is a private university located in the city of Lima, Peru. Founded on December 21, 1964, during the first...
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List of observatory codes (category Technology-related lists)
Observatorio Astronomico de Marratxi K13 Albireo Observatory - Albireo Observatory, Inca K14 Sencelles Observatory (Observatorio de Sencelles) - Observatorio de Sencelles...
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Mitma (redirect from Population tranfer in the Inca Empire)
conquered by the Incas. The objective was to transfer both loyalty to the state and a cultural baggage of Inca culture such as language, technology, economic...
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Canada (section Science and technology)
the Nature Index, and is home to the headquarters of a number of global technology firms. Canada has one of the highest levels of Internet access in the...
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the Sun were found. Tiwanaku, the location of Pumapunku, is significant in Inca traditions. According to traditions, Tiwanaku is believed to be the site...
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Ecuador (section Pre-Inca era)
variety of indigenous peoples that were gradually incorporated into the Inca Empire during the 15th century. The territory was colonized by Spanish Empire...
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Manco Capac, also known as Manco Inca and Ayar Manco, according to some historians, founder and first governor of the Inca civilization in Cuzco (KOOZ-Koh)...
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Promaucae (section Inca campaigns)
with which Túpac Inca Yupanqui agreed. Due to their proximity to the Inca Empire, the Promaucae learned the new technology that the Inca displayed in their...
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