- The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu which can be translated as The Four Regions or The Four United Provinces.
- Before the arrival of any European power, up amongst the Andean clouds, a large imperial state developed in South America: the Inca Empire.
- Key Takeaways
- The Aztecs had a hierarchical social structure, while the Incas had a more egalitarian one.
- The Aztecs practised human sacrifice, while the Incas did not.
- Pachacuti and Topa Inca, though hardly household names, are a double generation of conquerors comparable to Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander.
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- Pachacuti's son, Túpac Inca, conquered even more land, most importantly the Kingdom of Chimor, the Inca's only serious rival for the coast of Peru.
- The Incas successfully challenged and defeated the Ayarmaca people, in a region now known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas , found just north of Cusco.
- The Inca built roads in the region that people still use today. Ancient Incas: Social organization. In Inca times, there was a big government.
- Inca, South American Indians who ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands from the northern border of modern Ecuador to the...