 "The
Inca Empire, or Inka Empire (Quechua:
Tawantinsuyu),
was the largest empire in
pre-Columbian America.
The administrative, political and military center of the empire was
located in
Cusco
in modern-day
Peru.
The
Inca civilization
arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century.
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 southern
Colombia
into a state comparable to the historical empires of Eurasia. The
official language of the empire was
Quechua,
although hundreds of local languages and dialects of Quechua were
spoken. The Inca referred to their empire as
Tawantinsuyu
which can be translated as The Four
Regions or
The Four United Provinces."Source: Wikipedia |
