Inca

The Inca developed a great empire in South America and great civilization that included building irrigation systems, roads, tunnels, and bridges.

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​Located in the Andes Mountains

​Inca Civilization

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​Quechua language is spoken in ten countries in Latin America (is an official language in three of them). But unfortunately not many people know a lot about it.

​​Inca Language

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​The Inca government was called the Tawantinsuyu.

It was a monarchy ruled by a single leader called the Sapa Inca.

​​Inca Government

​The religion of the Inca was closely tied into the everyday life of the Inca as well as with their government.

They believed that their ruler was part god himself.

​​Inca Religion

​Built over rivers and roads

​​Suspension Bridges

​Used to remove bone fragments from an injured skull

​​Surgery

Trephination

​The Inca played flutes, seashell horns, rattles, drums, and panpipes.

​​Arts

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​The Inca did not have a written language. Instead they used an ingenious substitute: the knotted sets of strings called quipis.

​​Quipis

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​Francisco Pizarro

Francisco Pizarro was a seasoned conquistador who had been inspired by Hernán Cortés' conquest of Mexico. In 1532, with a troop of 160 Spaniards, Pizarro set off along the western coast of South America in search of a similar empire to conquer and plunder.

The Inca Empire fell to Spanish conquests and invasion​ lead by Pizarro

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​Machu Picchu remained hidden to the world for centuries. The Spanish conquistadors never found it and the Incas who knew the location never revealed its existence and was forgotten.

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