Inca
About Inca
The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of Cusco. The Inca civilisation rose from the Peruvian highlands sometime in the early 13th century. The Portuguese explorer Aleixo Garcia was the first European to reach the Inca Empire in 1524. Later, in 1532, the Spanish began the conquest of the Inca Empire, and by 1572 the last Inca state was fully conquered.
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Because they had no wheels or carts, the Incas built an incredible system of chaskis, relay runners who carried messages across the empire.
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Inca chaskis were so important they were exempt from farming and taxation, and their whole job was to deliver messages, parcels and equipment through the empire.
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Inca relay runners had to memorise each message perfectly, like Chinese whispers, rather than carry anything written.
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The Incas were a huge llama-keeping culture, relying on llamas, maize and potatoes, but never took to the wheel.
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The Inca way of hunting wild llamas was to gather 50,000 to 60,000 people, surround the llama plain, join arms and slowly corral them in.
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We know a fair amount about the Incas because they talked to the Spanish, unlike other Meso-Americans we know only from ceramics and textiles.
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In Incan society the ventriloquist held an important role, throwing their voice as part of the Inca religion.
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