- Therefore, the travel experts and Cusco locals of Machu Travel Peru prepared the following article to show the 15 most interesting facts about the Incas.
- As with other ancient Americas cultures, the historical origins of the Incas are difficult to disentangle from the founding myths they themselves created.
- The Inca civilization, which flourished prior to the arrival of Christopher Columbus, was the most extensive and expansive cultural complex in the Americas.
- Interesting facts about the Incas. The Inca civilization thrived in the Andes of South America, and their achievements are nothing short of astonishing.
- 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.
- It was the main activity in the Inca empire and the Incas became experts in this art, reaching adapt to the terrain and rigorous climate of the Andes.
- It was these two disparate areas of Peru--mountain and desert--that the Incas knit together in an economic and social synthesis. East of the cordilleras is the Montaña.
- Pachacuti and Topa Inca, though hardly household names, are a double generation of conquerors comparable to Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander.
- Between 1150 and 1250BC the Incas, by then a small tribe, were searching for farmland which they found in the fertile mountain valleys of Cusco.
- The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuyu which can be translated as The Four Regions or The Four United Provinces.