- Incas were the leaders of the largest American empire. ... Incas called their territory Tawantinsuyu, what in Quechua, the Inca language, means The Four Parts.
- The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu which can be translated as The Four Regions or The Four United Provinces.
- The Inca Indians created an empire high in the rugged Andes Mountains of South America. ... Yet, the Inca Indians never invented the wheel.
- 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 famous Inca trails crisscross the entire Empire, and legend has it that they made it possible for the Inca in Cusco to catch fresh fish from the Pacific daily.
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- The Inca civilization was the largest in South America. It occupied part of the current countries of Peru, Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Chile and Argentina.
- The Inca built roads in the region that people still use today. Ancient Incas: Social organization. In Inca times, there was a big government.
- Although Inca civilization shares general features that are common in the other great ancient American civilizations, there are peculiarities that set it apart.
- Before the arrival of any European power, up amongst the Andean clouds, a large imperial state developed in South America: the Inca Empire.