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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up Inca, inca, -inka, Inca Empire, or Inka in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Inca Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. Inca, Inka...
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Inca mythology is the universe of legends and collective memory of the Inca civilization, which took place in the current territories of Colombia, Ecuador...
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The Incas were most notable for establishing the Inca Empire which was centered in modern-day South America in Peru and Chile. It was about 4,000 kilometres...
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İncə or Incha or Indzha may refer to: İncə, Goychay, Azerbaijan İncə, Shaki, Azerbaijan Hinqar, Azerbaijan Incheh (disambiguation), Iran This disambiguation...
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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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Inca Kola (also known as "Golden Kola" in international advertising) is a soft drink that was created in Peru in 1935 by British immigrant Joseph Robinson...
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The Sapa Inca (from Quechua sapa inka; lit. 'the only emperor') was the monarch of the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu "the region of the four [provinces]")...
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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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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 Neo-Inca State, also known as the Neo-Inca state of Vilcabamba, was the Inca state established in 1537 at Vilcabamba by Manco Inca Yupanqui (the son...
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Pachacuti (redirect from Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui)
Pachacuti Inca Yupanqui, also called Pachacútec (Quechua: Pachakutiy Inka Yupanki), was the ninth Sapa Inca of the Chiefdom of Cusco, which he transformed...
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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 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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Inca cuisine originated in pre-Columbian times within the Inca civilization from the 13th to the 16th century. The Inca civilization stretched across...
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The Inca dove or Mexican dove (Columbina inca) is a small New World dove. The species was first described by French surgeon and naturalist René Lesson...
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The Inca religion was a group of beliefs and rites that were related to a mythological system evolving from pre-Inca times to Inca Empire. Faith in the...
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Topa Inca Yupanqui or Túpac Inca Yupanqui (Quechua: Tupa Inka Yupanki ~ Thupaq Inka Yupanki), also Topa Inga Yupangui, erroneously translated as "noble...
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The Inca Trail to Machu Picchu (also known as Camino Inca or Camino Inka) is a hiking trail in Peru that terminates at Machu Picchu. It consists of three...
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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 was a unit of currency in Peru between 1881 and 1882. The inca was issued in banknote form only and was subdivided into 10 reales de inca or 100...
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Atahualpa (category 16th-century Sapa Incas)
July 1533), was the last effective Inca emperor before his capture and execution during the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire. Atahualpa was the son of...
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Inca agriculture was the culmination of thousands of years of farming and herding in the high-elevation Andes mountains of South America, the coastal deserts...
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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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Mummy Juanita (redirect from Inca Ice Maiden)
well-preserved frozen body of a girl from the Inca Empire who was killed as a human sacrifice to the Inca gods sometime between 1440 and 1480, when she...
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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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Túpac Amaru (category Inca emperors)
instead of Amaru) was the last Sapa Inca of the Neo-Inca State, the final remaining independent part of the Inca Empire. He was executed by the Spanish...
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Inca (Catalan pronunciation: [ˈiŋ.kə]) is a town on the Spanish island of Mallorca. The population of the municipality is 32,137 (2018) in an area of 58...
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Gould's inca (Coeligena inca) is a species of hummingbird in subfamily Lesbiinae, the so-called "typical hummingbirds", of family Trochilidae. It is found...
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