The Incas had developed a method of recording numerical information which did not require writing. |
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The quipus of the ancient Incas of Peru encoded a wide range of data about people, land, and crops for the government bureaucracy. |
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With a sense of drama and spectacle, the Incas often built on the crown of a ridge. |
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Look at the Aztecs, the Incas, Mesopotamia, the Mongols, The Europeans, Timbuktu, China, Japan. |
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Her secret to keeping her energy up is quinoa, a grain from the Andes mountains in Peru which was one of the staple foods of the Incas. |
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They gave bangles for African slaves, opium for the silver of China and beads for the gold of the Incas and Mayas of South America. |
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The Incas were an advanced people who built fine cities and developed sophisticated farming methods. |
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The discussion was about how the Aztecs and the Incas were establishing empires. |
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As in trephination performed by the Incas who traded their melancholy for a helmet made from a turtle shell. |
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A myth of the early Incas and other Indians was that a bearded white man had come to teach the Indians and would return. |
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The Incas in South America followed a similar strategy and built 5,230 km of road running from north to south across 35 degrees of latitude. |
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The Mayans, Toltecs, and Incas were popularly believed to constitute the last flourishing of Atlantean races. |
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The Andes, home of the Incas, remain predominantly Indian, the language Quechua spoken more often than Spanish. |
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After the conquest of the Incas, Peru's capital, Lima, became the center of Spain's colonial power structure in the Americas. |
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They have announced plans to provide versions of Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office in Quechua, the language of the Incas. |
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Much better represented in scholarly literature and the popular imagination would be the Aztecs and Mayas of Mexico and the Incas of Peru. |
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The myth tells that it is slowly growing its body back and when the body is complete, the Incas will return to rule their land. |
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In the 15 th century, the Incas formed the largest empire in Pre-Columbian America with an estimated population of 9 million. |
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We know more about the Incas than their Andean predecessors because of their fateful contact with the Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century. |
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Any one of the late agrarian empires in Eurasia could, in principle, have overwhelmed the Incas and the Aztecs almost as easily as the Spaniards did. |
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Across the Atlantic, the period witnessed the rise of another notable road-building empire, that of the Incas. |
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The heirs to the Incas and the Mayas, and those of the myriad other Indian nations that peopled the continent in the pre-Columbus era, have a long tradition of resistance. |
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The Chimú culture succeeded the Mochica in the northern area and lasted until the arrival of the Incas. |
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They speak Quechua, the language of the Incas, herd alpaca and llamas and grow potatoes and beans, which they trade with their lowland neighbours for corn. |
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Remember that the Incas had no written records and so the quipu played a major role in the administration of the Inca empire since it allowed numerical information to be kept. |
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As we leave Pisac and roll down the side of the gorge, the sun suddenly emerges and a brilliant rainbow lights up the verdant green Sacred Valley of the Incas. |
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Especially when the leader in question is that Inca of Incas, the president of the United States. |
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The Aymara in northern Chile share the culture hero-creator Viracocha with the Incas. |
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The Incas of Peru were one of the most advanced civilizations in pre-Columbian America, rivalled only by the Mayans and the Aztecs of Mesoamerica. |
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Sanky was widely used by the Incas due to its properties as an effective medicine. |
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Silver mining became the basic economic activity and the Incas were forced to work. |
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This crop is normally cultivated in lands over 10,000 ft above sea level and its origin goes back to the Incas civilization time. |
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These efforts, however wore in vain, the Incas took command of the highlands and cut off the flow of water to the city of Chan Chan. |
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He also played with the future members of Los Incas in a bar in the Latin Quarter. |
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Just think of the quipus which enabled the Incas to manage their food administration in the 15th century. |
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And the Incas, in return, sent offerings to sacred Indian sites all over the empire. |
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A project of cablecar threatens the sacred and religious sanctuary of the Incas again! |
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All members of the party were successful with the trek and spent the rest of the day exploring the site and learning a lot more about the history of the Incas. |
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When it came time to pay the check, he left an old gold coin, a doubloon from the time in America of the Incas. |
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The Incas conquered the central valley in the 15th century, and their communications network included a road from Cuzco to Quito, which they set up as their regional capital. |
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The Incas made remarkable feats in architecture, as it can be observed in the lost city of Machu Picchu. |
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Archaeological and anthropological evidence suggests that the sun was also deified by other ancient civilizations including the Druids, Aztecs, Incas and American Indians. |
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Or even Machu Picchu of the ancient Incas in the Andes and the Ngorongoro Crater in East Africa? |
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Peruvian literature can be traced back to the oral traditions of the Incas. |
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The Incas were also adept at engineering bridges over the many rivers and ravines of their mountainous land, as well as causeways over tracts of swampland. |
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The Incas originally settled in Cuzco, the old capital of Peru, at the end of the 11th century. |
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The potato was originally grown by the Incas in Central and South America, and was brought to Europe in the 16th century by the explorers of the time. |
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Thanks to this network, the Incas in Cuzco were able to manage the work and production of large areas thousands of miles away from the city. |
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The combination of the setting and the architecture is sublime and the best description I know is, appropriately, in John Hemming's classic, The Conquest of the Incas. |
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Icons of Buddha, funeral masks of the Pharaohs, sceptres of the Incas all dedicated to a veritable cult of the sun. |
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The Mayans, Incas and Aztecs all have had their creation myths, but these tell us equally little about how their societies actually came into being. |
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The Incas tried for two years to resist the Spanish forces but in the end were conquered by the conquistadors. |
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In that year, the conquest of the Incas in Peru gave the Spaniards strategic positions in the north and south for the subjugation and colonization of Colombia. |
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Smallpox devastated the native Amerindian population and was an important factor in the conquest of the Aztecs and the Incas by the Spaniards. |
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The Incas regarded it as a holy plant and worshipped its seeds. |
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Divine BB does not neglect to promote BB's guitar skills, showing extracts of her playing El Cuchipe with Los Incas and assuring the guitar part on The Sunny Side Of The Street with the Claude Bolling Orchestra. |
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We could also visit the salt mines famous because this place was used by the Incas and it still working until today. There we could participate and learn the ancient techniques to work with this mineral. |
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The Spanish conquistadores prohibited its cultivation in former times, because they held quinoa responsible for the fierce resistance the Incas offered them. |
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A Count yourself lucky to have a really exotic flower, also known as Lily of the Incas or, botanically, alstroemeria. |
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It is a unique testimony to the history of the Incas written by the first great mixed-race Peruvian writer, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, son of a noble Spanish captain and an Inca princess. |
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Among the many other peoples who practiced mummification were the people living along the Torres Strait, between Papua New Guinea and Australia, and the Incas of South America. |
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Ayahuasca is a psycho-active drink made by the fusion of two distinct botanic species, which were used in religious rituals or ceremonies known by the Incas from the time of Huayna Capac onwards. |
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The Chichas fought the Chiriguanos and Tobas from the Chaco lands to the east and held off the Incas from the north for years. |
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Originally the bottom of the sea, later inhabited by dinosaurs and then colonialized by the Incas and the Spanish, Salta features one of the most fascinating landscapes of Argentina. |
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Archaeological and Anthropological Museum: it presents a collection of ceramic, weaves, impressive mommies, pictures of the Incas, clothes and various objects of the forest. |
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A quipu is an ancient system of knotted cords used by the Incas to store numeric and other information important to their culture and civilization. |
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Also known as maize, grain corn was the chief source of nourishment for thousands of years, sustaining the Mayas, Aztecs, Incas and the Indian peoples of North and South America. |
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To experience the history of Peru, the delegation went to Cusco, the ancient capital of the Inca empire of Peru, and to Machu Picchu, the lost city of the Incas. |
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We are told of ferocious battles taking place in Cajamarca, where the warriors from Trujillo had formed a defensive alliance, to detain the advance of the Incas from Cuzco. |
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After having nourished the builders of the great prestigious empire of Incas, the quinoa continuous to offer force and vitality to the populations of the high plateaus by constituting their basic food. |
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Once the Incas were under control the Spanish settled in Izcuchaca and busied themselves transporting the minerals and other riches brought mainly from Huancavelica, but also from Cusco and Huamanga. |
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It was in narrating the Spanish conquests at that time that Prescott's republicanism penetrates his histories so as to colour his picture of the Spanish state and the aboriginal governments of the Aztecs and the Incas. |
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Even though it was located along something of a cul-de-sac amid the network of pedestrian super-highways, Machu Picchu symbolises the might and ambition of the Incas. |
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Tobacco, as used by the Incas and the Aztecs during important religious ceremonies, also had the virtue of appeasing hunger and overcoming fatigue. |
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Bronze technology was developed further by the Incas and used widely both for utilitarian objects and sculpture. |
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At the time of the Spanish conquest, the Muisca were the largest native civilization geographically between the Incas and the Aztecs empires. |
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Their architecture remains were later destroyed by Spaniards and the Incas. |
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In 1985 the Peruvian sol was replaced at one thousand to one by the inti, representing the sun god of the Incas. |
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The plethora of civilizations in the Andean region provided for a general disunity that the Incas had to subdue in order to maintain control. |
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The language imposed by the Incas diverted from its original phonetics as some societies formed their own regional varieties. |
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The civilizations within the empire that had previously spoken Quechua kept their own variety distinct from the Quechua the Incas spread. |
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The Incas performed child sacrifices around important events, such as the death of the Sapa Inca or during a famine. |
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The Incas had no iron or steel and their weapons were not much more effective than those of their opponents. |
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The Incas formed this civilization through imperialistic militarism as well as careful and meticulous governmental management. |
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The ancient peoples of the Andes such as the Incas have practiced irrigation techniques for over 6,000 years. |
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The Incas were masters of this technique, in which blocks of stone are cut to fit together tightly without mortar. |
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The Incas of Cusco originally represented one of the small and relatively minor ethnic groups, the Quechuas. |
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The Incas maintained these crafts and made architectural achievements including the construction of Machu Picchu. |
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There he was unable to conquer or invade the land due to the resistance that he found in the local people who were at that time under the Incas. |
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At the signal to attack, the Spaniards unleashed volleys of gunfire at the vulnerable mass of Incas and surged forward in a concerted action. |
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The Incas were later defeated by the heavily armed Spanish soldiers led by Gonzalo and Juan. |
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More importantly, he seized both the Lands of the Previous Incas and the Lands of the Sun. |
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Throughout the conflict and years of the Spanish colonization of the Americas, many Incas died of smallpox. |
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Empires such as the Incas depended on a highly centralized administration for the distribution of resources. |
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The Incas believed that Andean condors flew the sun into the sky every morning and served as messengers to the gods. |
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Likewise, studying the quipu and the complex tax system can bring to life accomplishments by the Incas during the 15th and 16th centuries in South America. |
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Quinoa was cultivated about 3,000 years ago in the Andes mountain region, and was the favored crop of the Incas, who used it as a sacred plant in rituals. |
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The Incas placed great emphasis on storing agricultural products and other goods and the Mantaro Valley has more qullqas than any other region of Peru. |
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An important Xauxa town was located in the vicinity before the Incas. |
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Most chroniclers suggest that Atahualpa was born in what the Incas used to call the Kingdom of Quito, though other stories suggest various other birthplaces. |
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Smallpox was taken to the continent, causing disaster for the Incas. |
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Another element that the Spanish brought with them were African slaves to work alongside captive Incas for use in labor with things such as agriculture and mining for silver. |
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The effect was devastating, the shocked Incas offered such feeble resistance that the battle has often been labeled a massacre, with the Inca losing 2,000 dead. |
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Under his rule and that of his son, Topa Inca Yupanqui, the Incas came to control most of the Andean region, with a population of 9 to 16 million inhabitants under their rule. |
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The Incas expanded their empire onto the southwest part of the country. |
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The Incas were polytheists who attempted to please many gods. |
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The diversity of Quechua at that point and even today does not come directly from the Incas, who were just a part of the reason for Quechua's diversity. |
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The Incas were a very small percentage of the total population of the empire, probably numbering only 15,000 to 40,000, but ruling a population of around 10 million persons. |
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