Landscaping is very thoughtful, with retaining walls and terraces cut with almost Inca sensitivity and precision into the arid slopes. |
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When a Sapa Inca died his body was mummified and thereafter became the focus of a cult. |
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A thrilling finish saw Hardy Eustace successfully defend his Champion Hurdle title, edging out Harchibald and Brave Inca on the line. |
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Ancient Mayan Inca and Aztec women believed that avocados fed the skin from the inside and outside. |
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The Peruvian Suite, compiled by Piccolodeon, is adapted from a book of Inca melodies arranged for flute and piano. |
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Sad to say, the old Inca vegetables were soon replaced by Western food crops. |
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It was a gift from a visiting Greek shipping tycoon who had just launched a new ship called Inca. |
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Military heroes and the leaders of vanquished tribes often had this status conferred upon them by the ruling Inca. |
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South America in pre-Hispanic times was dominated by the Inca culture, with a tendency to expand into the Inca Empire. |
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Their Aymara and Quechua roots go back to the Inca Empire that was conquered by the Spanish conquistadors 500 years ago. |
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Pre-Columbian civilisations such as the Inca and the Aztecs failed to turn the wheel from a toy into a practical tool. |
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When the Spanish landed in 1531, Peru's territory was the nucleus of the highly developed Inca civilization. |
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Clay, wood and stone are his mediums while he draws inspiration from Indian, Egyptian, Hittite and Inca traditions. |
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The Inca empire extended into northwest Argentina, further south the indigenous people were nomadic hunters. |
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The Inca empire which existed in 1532, before the Spanish conquest, was vast. |
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While traveling along the Inca Road, Muller carries wool and a spindle with her. |
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The guinea pig had already been domesticated by the Inca of Peru, for whom it was an important food. |
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Central American natives like the Aztec, Inca and Maya developed games using teams, balls, and targets. |
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He also knew that the Inca potato, unlike modern varieties, was not a good cropper. |
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An outpost of the Inca empire, thought to have been inhabited by the Chachapoyas, has been discovered in Peru's Amazon jungle. |
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Not like the Inca or Aztec civilizations, Colombian Indians lived in a more compact area. |
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Donning replicas of Inca tunics, rather than contemporary Andean garb, Quechua Indians reenact the Inca sun-worshiping ceremony. |
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The more adventurous travelers hike their way into the Inca sanctuary, situated high on a mountain peak in the cloudy forest. |
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Ayahuasca is a Quechua word, Quechua being the language of the Inca Empire which is still spoken by many people throughout Peru. |
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The lake was the cradle of Andean civilisation and remains enduringly known as the birthplace of the Inca empire. |
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He frequently consults with the National Geographic Society on a wide variety of topics, including the Moche, the Inca, and Francisco Pizarro. |
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With an intense eye, he gazes like a spirit guardian, across the valley to the ruins of Runku Raqay, an old Inca outpost. |
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In the hands of a creative photographer, an artful landscape can be made of any subject from a New England farm to an Inca ruin in Peru. |
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Quichua includes the northern dialects of Quechua, the language of the imperial Inca. |
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During this time they visited a local market in Pisac in the Urabamba Valley and also Sacsayhuaman, an Inca hill fort above Cusco. |
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In 1572, the Spanish prohibited the Quechua from wearing native Inca tunics and wrap-around dresses. |
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Ecuador was part of the viceroyalty of Peru, and the Inca Atahualpa had his capital in Quito. |
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The South American country is seeking the return of some 4,900 artefacts from the Inca citadel, including ceramics, cloths and metalwork. |
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The Spanish conquistadors encountered the highly evolved Inca Empire when they invaded Peru at the beginning of the sixteenth century. |
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To stay warm, Inca doves form groups of up to 12 and stand on each other's backs. |
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The vast Inca wealth made the Andes a target of intense exploration and exploitation. |
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Another of the joys of the Inca Trail and Machu Picchu are the wild orchids that grow, although now in decreasing numbers as tourists pick them. |
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Sheridan's Pizarro opens in 1534, with the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro waging a war of conquest against the Inca Empire of Peru. |
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In 1534, the Spanish arrived and defeated the Inca armies, and Spanish colonists became the new elite. |
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The Inca, Maya and Aztec cultures all had advanced metallurgy by the time the Spanish arrived. |
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I've always been interested in the ancient American mythologies of the Inca, Maya, and Aztec, and the ancient mythos of the Greeks and Egyptians. |
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Land is still farmed using the Inca method of terracing on steep slopes. |
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Here you can see reconstructed Inca ruins evoking a long-lost past. |
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When the Inca conquered Ecuador in the fifteenth century, they introduced the Quechua language and imposed a tax system in which payments were made in human labor. |
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The brewery may be the oldest large-scale facility of its kind ever found in the Andes and predates the Inca Empire by at least four centuries, he said. |
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Remember that the Incas had no written records and so the quipu played a major role in the administration of the Inca empire since it allowed numerical information to be kept. |
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The Aztecs, the Toltecs, the Inca, the Maya, etc., are proof enough that the Nazca did not need extraterrestrial help to create their art gallery in the desert. |
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How did the Inca get giant blocks of stone up mountains 500 years ago without the use of wheels? |
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The opening race of the meeting, which began to the sound of the famous Cheltenham cheer, was won by Brave Inca, one of the Irish bankers of the meeting. |
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Especially when the leader in question is that Inca of Incas, the president of the United States. |
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Inca rule started with the conquest of the Moche culture in Peru. |
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The Inca reigned as absolute monarch, but his will reached the common man only through the local chiefs, whose authority and privileges were maintained, if not reinforced. |
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Although there are different accounts as to what Valverde said, most agree that he invited the Inca to come inside to talk and dine with Pizarro. |
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The Inca berry, or cape gooseberry, now imported from Colombia to supply supermarkets, was grown in this country in Victorian times, says Wong. |
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The disease had ravaged Mexico, Central America, and the Inca civilization. |
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Commercial routes were developed that brought goods from places as far as the Gulf of Mexico, the Pacific Ocean and perhaps even the Inca Empire. |
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After his invasion, Pizarro destroyed the Inca state and while ruling the area for almost a decade, initiated the decline of local cultures. |
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The Inca deity Urcuchillay was depicted in the form of a multicolored llama. |
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Starting in 1532 and succeeding in 1533, Francisco Pizarro conquered the Inca Empire and claimed what we know today as Peru for Spain. |
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Governing with an iron fist, he helped with the eventual suppression of Inca uprisings led by Manco Inca. |
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He defeated the Inca invasion force and in the process conquered and ruled the Inca Empire as Sapa Inca. |
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It is considered to be the place where the Inca Empire came to an end with the capture and eventual execution of the Inca Emperor Atahualpa. |
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Hummingbirds often accompanied depictions of Inca women on qeros, the brilliantly colored wooden cups. |
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Repeatedly one comes upon references that say all the Inca really knew was recorded in the khipus. |
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Lake Titicaca became the place where Viracocha, the Inca creator god, created the sun and the moon. |
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A GIRL Guide leader from the city has been selected to represent Wales on a sponsored trek along the famous Inca Trail in Peru. |
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In the Americas, Charles sanctioned the conquest by Castillian conquistadors of the Aztec and Inca empires. |
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Even today, in the Andes of South America, the Quechuan peoples use cairns as religious shrines to the indigenous Inca goddess Pachamama. |
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The Inca tern nests in crevices, caves and disused burrows, such as that of a Humboldt penguin. |
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Three species, the Inca, Damara, and river terns, are expected to decline in the future due to habitat loss and disturbance. |
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They are reported to be the founders of various civilisations such as the Aztec, the Maya and the Inca. |
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In the Americas, both the Inca Empire and the Aztec Empire reach the peak of their influence. |
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They were directly responsible for destroying the civilizations of the Inca, Aztec, and Maya in their quest to build the Spanish Empire. |
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In one of the charts, Portuguese castles are clearly drawn in Inca territory, something that was never reported in any official document. |
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The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. |
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The Inca Empire was unique in that it lacked many features associated with civilization in the Old World. |
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Instead, exchange of goods and services was based on reciprocity between individuals and among individuals, groups, and Inca rulers. |
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The Inca Empire was the last chapter of thousands of years of Andean civilization. |
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The Inca people were a pastoral tribe in the Cusco area around the 12th century. |
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Out of the side caves came the people who were to be the ancestors of all the Inca clans. |
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Ayar Uchu decided to stay on the top of the cave to look over the Inca people. |
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It is said that he and his sisters built the first Inca homes in the valley with their own hands. |
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Most accepted the rule of the Inca as a fait accompli and acquiesced peacefully. |
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The ruler's children were brought to Cusco to learn about Inca administration systems, then return to rule their native lands. |
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However, most of the southern portion of the Inca empire, the portion denominated as Qullasuyu, was located in the Altiplano. |
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The Inca empire as a whole had an economy based on exchange and taxation of luxury goods and labour. |
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The Spanish horsemen, fully armored, had technological superiority over the Inca forces. |
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Pizarro and some of his men, most notably a friar named Vincente de Valverde, met with the Inca, who had brought only a small retinue. |
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The Inca fulfilled this ransom, but Pizarro deceived them, refusing to release the Inca afterwards. |
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This ended resistance to the Spanish conquest under the political authority of the Inca state. |
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For the Inca nobility, the llama was of symbolic significance, and llama figures were often buried with the dead. |
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This was a site of the great prehistoric Moche and Chimu cultures before the Inca conquest and subsequent expansion. |
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Consequently, Spanish chroniclers recorded accounts of Chimu culture from persons who had lived before the Inca conquest. |
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These two sons would play pivotal roles in the final years of the Inca Empire. |
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Pizarro sent Hernando de Soto and Hernando Pizarro to the Inca leader's camp. |
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Pizarro also used cavalry charges against the Inca forces, which stunned them in combination with gunfire. |
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Manco Inca initially had good relations with Francisco Pizarro and several other Spanish conquistadors. |
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Many Inca attempts to regain the empire had occurred, but none had been successful. |
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Some local populations entered into vassalage willingly, to defeat the Inca. |
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The Inca are featured in the third Campaign in Age of Empires 3, having a Lost City hidden in the Andes. |
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Particularly egregious was the conduct of Juan and Gonzalo Pizarro towards the Inca Emperor, Manco Inca Yupanqui. |
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As such he took part in most of the chief events of the conquest of the Inca empire, mainly during the campaigns against Manco Inca. |
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Centuries later, Piura came under the rule of Tupac Inca Yupanqui for at least 40 years before the Spanish arrived. |
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Atahualpa agreed to take the leadership role of Sapa Inca in this new capital. |
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There are no other hard numbers of Inca or Spanish death tolls at any of the other battles. |
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During the Spanish conquest, the Spaniard Francisco Pizarro captured Atahualpa and used him to control the Inca Empire. |
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Throughout the Inca Empire's history, each Sapa Inca worked to expand the territory of the empire. |
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When Pachacuti, the 9th Sapa Inca ruled, he expanded the Empire to northern Peru. |
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News of the expansion of the Inca reached the different tribes and nations of Ecuador. |
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As a defense against the Inca, the Andean chiefdoms formed alliances with each other. |
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However, the Inca Huayna Capac who grew tired of going to war decided to peacefully settle things. |
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Thus the rest of Ecuador was temporarily incorporated into the Inca Empire. |
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The Spaniards were billeted in certain long buildings on the main plaza, and Pizarro sent an embassy to the Inca, led by Hernando de Soto. |
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On 17 November the Spaniards sacked the Inca army camp, in which they found great treasures of gold, silver, and emeralds. |
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He was horrified, since the Inca believed that the soul would not be able to go on to the afterlife if the body were burned. |
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Any assault on the Inca armies overlooking the valley would have been suicidal. |
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Since this could not realistically be accomplished in an open field, Pizarro had invited the Inca to Cajamarca. |
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The Spanish approached and told Atahualpa that Virococha had ordered them to tell the Inca who they were. |
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Pizarro rushed at Atahualpa on horseback, but the Inca remained motionless. |
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While his men were cutting down Atahualpa's attendants, Pizarro rode through them to where a Spanish soldier had pulled the Inca from his litter. |
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There is no evidence that any of the main Inca force attempted to engage the Spaniards in Cajamarca after the success of the initial ambush. |
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The Inca agreed, assuming the name Juan de Atahualpa, in honor of John the Baptist. |
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The Killke people occupied the region from 900 to 1200, prior to the arrival of the Inca in the 13th century. |
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Pizarro ceremoniously gave Manco Inca the Incan fringe as the new Peruvian leader. |
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The city was retaken from the Spanish during the Siege of Cuzco of 1536 by Manco Inca Yupanqui, a leader of the Sapa Inca. |
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Its streets are steep and narrow with old houses built by the Spanish over important Inca foundations. |
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The first cathedral built in Cusco is the Iglesia del Triunfo, built in 1539 on the foundations of the Palace of Viracocha Inca. |
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In the same year, Pizarro and his men discovered that Jauja was home to huge accumulations of Inca food, clothing and wealth. |
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The Xauxas were the earliest settlers in this town, before the Inca also made it their home. |
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In 1532 a group of Spanish conquistadors, led by Francisco Pizarro, defeated the Inca ruler Atahualpa and took over his Empire. |
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In August 1536, rebel Inca troops led by Manco Inca Yupanqui besieged the city but were defeated by the Spaniards and their native allies. |
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In the Inca Empire, workers were subject to a mita in lieu of taxes which they paid by working for the government. |
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The Aztec and Inca Empires were conquered during Charles' reign, from 1519 to 1521 and 1540 to 1558, respectively. |
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The Inca were prosperous and advanced, known for an excellent road system and unrivaled masonry. |
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In Peru in the 15th century AD, the Inca made use of otherwise unusable slopes by building dry stone walls to create terraces. |
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To honor the spirits that take form as mountains, the Inca stoneworkers carved rock outcrops to replicate their shapes. |
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The city was home to elite members of the Wari Empire from AD 600-1000, an empire which predated the Inca by at least four centuries. |
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They were also the first Europeans to cross the Chaco and reach the outer territories of the Inca Empire on the hills of the Andes, near Sucre. |
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Of equal importance was the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire by Francisco Pizarro, which would become the Viceroyalty of Peru. |
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Spotted and ringed turtle doves are also allowed, but common ground, ruddy ground and Inca dove are prohibited. |
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Pachacuti was born about 1418, the third son of Viracocha Inca and Coya Mama Runtu, the Inca's wife and sister. |
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The Inca called newborn infants wawa, a term that they also used for newborn animals. |
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It was important to the Inca that they not die as a result of burning or that the body of the deceased not be incinerated. |
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The Incas performed child sacrifices around important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca or during a famine. |
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The Inca Empire traded with outside regions, although they did not operate a substantial internal market economy. |
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The Sapa Inca was conceptualized as divine and was effectively head of the state religion. |
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As the Inca did not have written records, it is impossible to exhaustively list the constituent wamani. |
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The most notable example is Machu Picchu, which was constructed by Inca engineers. |
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The prime Inca structures were made of stone blocks that fit together so well that a knife could not be fitted through the stonework. |
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Inca astronomers understood equinoxes, solstices and zenith passages, along with the Venus cycle. |
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The Inca calendar was essentially lunisolar, as two calendars were maintained in parallel, one solar and one lunar. |
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The sophistication of Inca administration, calendrics and engineering required facility with numbers. |
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It is likely that Inca mathematics at least allowed division of integers into integers or fractions and multiplication of integers and fractions. |
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The Inca recorded information on assemblages of knotted strings, known as Quipu, although they can no longer be decoded. |
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The Inca army was the most powerful at that time, because they could turn an ordinary villager or farmer into a soldier. |
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Every able bodied male Inca of fighting age had to take part in war in some capacity at least once and to prepare for warfare again when needed. |
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However, according to Peruvian historiography, the Inca Empire never had a flag. |
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Manco Inca hoped to use the disagreement between Almagro and Pizarro to his advantage and attempted the recapture of Cuzco starting in Feb. |
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While the Conquistadors may have been slightly taller, the Inca had the advantage of coping with the extraordinary altitude. |
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Between 1438 and 1527, the Inca empire, during its expansion from its capital at Cuzco, Peru. |
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Unlike the Aztecs and the Inca, the Maya political system never integrated the entire Maya cultural area into a single state or empire. |
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In the Americas, Charles sanctioned the conquest by Castillian conquistadores of the Aztec and Inca empires. |
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The Muisca Confederation was as advanced as the Aztec, Maya and Inca civilizations. |
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The same year, Pizarro entered the Inca capital of Cuzco and completed his conquest of Peru. |
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Here, they found a large native population recently brought under Inca rule. |
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As such, Pizarro dispatched De Almagro to pursue Quizquiz, fleeing to the Inca Empire's northern city of Quito. |
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The Inca warrior had ordered the city to be burned and its gold to be buried at an undisclosed location where the Spanish could never find it. |
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After his return, De Almagro was surprised to learn of the Inca Manco's rebellion. |
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Diego de Almagro sent an embassy to the Inca, but they mistrusted all of the Spaniards by this time. |
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An alternative history is provided by the contemporary writer Inca Garcilasco de la Vega, son of an Inca princess and a conquistador. |
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In December 1532, a party of conquistadors led by Francisco Pizarro defeated and captured the Inca Emperor Atahualpa in the Battle of Cajamarca. |
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The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. |
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They built churches in every city and replaced some of the Inca temples with churches, such as the Coricancha in the city of Cusco. |
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Tumbes was integrated into the Inca Empire during the reign of Sapa Inca Pachacuti. |
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He introduced a new way of organizing the empire, but the task of integration continued during Tupac Inca Yupanqui's and Huayna Capac's reigns. |
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In the Inca empire, llamas were the only beasts of burden, and many of the people dominated by the Inca had long traditions of llama herding. |
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The effects of smallpox on the Inca empire were even more devastating. |
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This allowed the Inca to indoctrinate them into the Inca nobility and, with luck, marry their daughters into families at various corners of the empire. |
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The Inca likely did not adequately understand the conquistadors' demands. |
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The effect was devastating, the shocked Incas offered such feeble resistance that the battle has often been labeled a massacre, with the Inca losing 2,000 dead. |
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His son, Sinchi Roca, became the second emperor of the Inca. |
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The Inca later expanded and occupied the complex in the 13th century. |
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However, in 1535 he was left in Cuzco under the control of Pizarro's brothers, Juan and Gonzalo, who so mistreated Manco Inca that he ultimately rebelled. |
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Colonial sources are not entirely clear or in agreement about Inca government structure, such as exact duties and functions of government positions. |
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However, beneath the Sapa Inca also sat the Inkap rantin, who was a confidant and assistant to the Sapa Inca, perhaps similar to a Prime Minister. |
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The spread was probably aided by the efficient Inca road system. |
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Almost nothing was left of the Inca civilizations after the conquest by the Spanish, as culture was not as significant as gold to the new conquerors. |
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Physical measures used by the Inca were based on human body parts. |
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As the Inca did not have as strong a writing tradition as the Aztec or Maya, it is difficult for historians to estimate population decline or any events after conquest. |
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Buildings constructed after the Spanish invasion have a mixture of Spanish influence with Inca indigenous architecture, including the Santa Clara and San Blas neighborhoods. |
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To beat the Inca civilization, they supported one side of a civil war. |
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Restoration work at the Santo Domingo complex exposed the Inca masonry formerly obscured by the superstructure without compromising the integrity of the colonial heritage. |
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The Spanish destroyed many Inca buildings, temples and palaces. |
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Prior to the Inca dominance, specialized long distance merchants provided the highlanders with goods such as gold nuggets, copper hatchets, cocoa, salt etc. |
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Sapa Inca Huayna Capac travelled north to investigate the strangers. |
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In modern times the rainbow flag has been wrongly associated with the Tawantinsuyu and displayed as a symbol of Inca heritage by some groups in Peru and Bolivia. |
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Thus, it became uncertain as to who should be the next Inca king. |
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As capital to the Inca Empire, Cusco was an important agricultural region. |
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It is unknown how many Inca were killed or died during the Civil War. |
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Before Spanish colonization, the Andean region of Bolivia was part of the Inca Empire, while the northern and eastern lowlands were inhabited by independent tribes. |
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Machu Picchu was built around 1450, at the height of the Inca Empire. |
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A long series of cultural development culminated in the expansion of the Inca civilization and Inca Empire in the central Andes during the 15th century. |
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The hill that forms the backdrop for the town has a fine row of Inca Stores and large number of circular buildings representing the Xauxa culture. |
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Andean music comes from the general area inhabited by Quechuas, Aymaras and other peoples that roughly in the area of the Inca Empire prior to European contact. |
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Snowden had earlier produced a very different ride when patiently delivering 11-8 chance Inca Trail at just the right time to outspeed favourite Back Nine on the run-in. |
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After a difficult voyage facing strong winds and currents, they reached Atacames where they found a large native population under Inca rule, but they did not land. |
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Following the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, the Spanish introduced the potato to Europe in the second half of the 16th century, part of the Colombian exchange. |
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Brave Inca had been shaken off but Paul was sitting motionless on Harchibald, just waiting to complete one of the cockiest, cheekiest wins in Champion Hurdle history. |
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Breaking with Inca tradition Huayna Capac proposed to marry the Queen of Quito in order to peacefully incorporate the rest of northern Ecuador into the Inca Empire. |
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The copper projects are the expansion of Phase III Collahuasi, Hypogene Quebrada Blanca, Relincho, Inca de Oro, San Antonio oxides, Santo Domingo and Phase II Andina. |
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Atahualpa, in Cajamarca with his army of 80,000 troops, heard that this party of strangers was advancing into the empire, and sent an Inca noble to investigate. |
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In South America, the 14th and 15th centuries saw the rise of the Inca. |
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Under his rule and that of his son, Topa Inca Yupanqui, the Incas came to control most of the Andean region, with a population of 9 to 16 million inhabitants under their rule. |
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Along with their tactical and material superiority, the Spaniards acquired tens of thousands of native allies who sought to end the Inca control of their territories. |
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The Inca Empire was an amalgamation of languages, cultures and peoples. |
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Even though many of the Inca traditions were lost or diluted, new customs, traditions and knowledge were added, creating a rich mixed Peruvian culture. |
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Inti Raymi, which is an old Inca festival, is still celebrated. |
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His rule lasted only a few months before he was captured by the army of Francisco Pizarro, who sided with the Cuzco supporters of the executed Inca Huascar. |
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The Americas collection mainly consists of 19th and 20th century items although the Paracas, Moche, Inca, Maya, Aztec, Taino and other early cultures are well represented. |
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The Inca himself was carried in a litter lined with parrot feathers and partly covered in silver, carried by eighty Inca courtiers of high rank in vivid blue clothing. |
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Below us the white granite and quartz of the most sacred of Inca sites sparkled, its Toblerone-shaped walls and deserted craters stretching over seventy acres. |
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For instance, he makes sure that the reader is aware that the weapons taken by the Inca army, tumis, are ritual weapons used for the ritual hunt and slaughter of llamas. |
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The water-soluble extract, rich in phytonutrients, is prepared from the ancient Andean physalis fruit, also known as Inca berry, cape gooseberry or golden berry. |
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However, under the administrative mechanisms established by the Inca, all parts of the empire answered to, and were ultimately under the direct control of, the Emperor. |
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On his accession to the throne, Huayna Capac had continued the policy of expansion by conquest, taking Inca armies north into what is today Ecuador. |
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At its height, the Inca Empire included Peru and Bolivia, most of what is now Ecuador and a large portion of what is today Chile, north of the Maule River. |
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