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v. t. e. The Inca road system (also spelled Inka road system and known as Qhapaq Ñan[ note 1 ] meaning "royal road" in Quechua [ 1 ]) was the most extensive and advanced transportation system in pre-Columbian South America. It was about 40,000 kilometres (25,000 mi) long. [ 2 ]: 242 The construction of the roads required a large expenditure of ...
Qullqa. A qullqa (Quechua pronunciation: [ˈqʊʎˌqa] "deposit, storehouse"; [1] (spelling variants: colca, collca, qolca, qollca) was a storage building found along roads and near the cities and political centers of the Inca Empire. [2] These were large stone buildings with roofs thatched with "ichu" grass, or what is known as Peruvian ...
The Incas were most notable for establishing the Inca Empire which was centered in modern-day South America in Peru and Chile. [1] It was about 4,000 kilometres (2,500 mi) from the northern to southern tip. [2] The Inca Empire lasted from 1438 to 1533. It was the largest Empire in America throughout the Pre-Columbian era. [1]
The Inca Empire, [ a ] officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "land of four parts" [ 5 ]), was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. [ 6 ] The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilization rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the ...
Sacsayhuamán (/ ˈsæksaɪˌwʌmən / SACK-sy-wuh-mən; Spanish pronunciation: [saksajwaˈman]) or Saksaywaman (from Quechua Saksay waman pukara, pronounced [ˈsaksaj ˈwaman], lit.'fortress of the royal falcon or hawk ') [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] is a citadel on the northern outskirts of the city of Cusco, Peru, the historic capital of the Inca Empire.
Machu Picchu[ a ] is a 15th-century Inca citadel located in the Eastern Cordillera of southern Peru on a mountain ridge at 2,430 meters (7,970 ft). [ 9 ] Often referred to as the "Lost City of the Incas", [ 10 ] it is the most familiar icon of the Inca Empire. It is located in the Machupicchu District within Urubamba Province [ 11 ] above the ...
The Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire, also known as the Conquest of Peru, was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas.After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under conquistador Francisco Pizarro, along with his brothers in arms and their indigenous allies, captured the last Sapa Inca, Atahualpa, at the ...
Moray (Inca ruin) Moray[1][2] (Quechua: Muray) [3] is an archaeological site in Peru approximately 50 kilometres (31 mi) northwest of Cuzco on a high plateau at about 3,500 metres (11,500 ft) and just west of the village of Maras. The site contains Inca ruins, mostly consisting of several terraced circular depressions, the largest of which is ...