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"The book investigates its extraordinary progress from a small Andean society in southern Peru to its rapid demise little more than a century later at the hands of the Spanish conquerors"--
Encyclopedia of the Incas
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Type: Book
The Inca Empire existed for fewer than one hundred years, yet ruled more subjects than either the Aztecs or the Maya and occupied a territory stretching nearly three thousand miles. The Incas left no system of writing; what we know of them has been gleaned from the archaeologica…
"Inka khipus-spun and plied cords that record information through intricate patterns of knots and colors-constitute the only available primary sources on the Inka empire not mediated by the hands, minds, and motives of the conquering Europeans. As such, they offer direct insight…
