- Pachacuti and Topa Inca, though hardly household names, are a double generation of conquerors comparable to Philip of Macedon and his son Alexander.
- Archaeologist John Rowe calculates 1200 CE as an approximate date for the founding of the Inca dynasty — long before the foundation of the empire.
- The knowledge of these myths is due to oral tradition, since the Incas did not have writing. There probably did exist a Manco Capac who became the leader of his tribe.
- 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.
- The Inca built roads in the region that people still use today. Ancient Incas: Social organization. In Inca times, there was a big government.
- Bolstered by the military capabilities of two uncles, Viracocha Inca defeated the Ayarmaca kingdom to the south and took over the Urubamba Valley.
- The Inca Indians created an empire high in the rugged Andes Mountains of South America. ... Yet, the Inca Indians never invented the wheel.
- Incas were the leaders of the largest American empire. ... Incas called their territory Tawantinsuyu, what in Quechua, the Inca language, means The Four Parts.
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