1. The Inca Empire or Inka Empire was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America.
2. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru.
3. The inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometimes in the early 13th century.
4. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including, besides Peru, large parts of modern Ecuador, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and central Chile, and a small part of southern Columbia into a state comparable to be historical empires of Eurasia.
5. The official language of the empire was Quechua, although hundreds of local languages are dialects of Quechua were spoken.
6. The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuys which can be translated as The Four Regions of The Four United Provines.
7. There were many local forms of worship, most of them concerning local sacred "Huacas", but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti -- the sun god -- and imposed its sovereighnty above other cults such as that of Pachamama.
8. The Incas considered their King, the Sapa Inca, to be the "child of the sun."
9. Architecture was by far the most important of the Inca arts, with textiles reflecting motifs that were at their height in architecture.
10. Incan oral history mentions three possible places as three caves.
2. The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru.
3. The inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometimes in the early 13th century.
4. From 1438 to 1533, the Incas used a variety of methods, from conquest to peaceful assimilation, to incorporate a large portion of western South America, centered on the Andean mountain ranges, including, besides Peru, large parts of modern Ecuador, western and south central Bolivia, northwest Argentina, north and central Chile, and a small part of southern Columbia into a state comparable to be historical empires of Eurasia.
5. The official language of the empire was Quechua, although hundreds of local languages are dialects of Quechua were spoken.
6. The Inca referred to their empire as Tawantinsuys which can be translated as The Four Regions of The Four United Provines.
7. There were many local forms of worship, most of them concerning local sacred "Huacas", but the Inca leadership encouraged the worship of Inti -- the sun god -- and imposed its sovereighnty above other cults such as that of Pachamama.
8. The Incas considered their King, the Sapa Inca, to be the "child of the sun."
9. Architecture was by far the most important of the Inca arts, with textiles reflecting motifs that were at their height in architecture.
10. Incan oral history mentions three possible places as three caves.