Access to formal education in Incan society was limited to children of the central nobility and certain levels of the curacal (hatun curaca). They attended the yachaywasi (house of knowledge) in Cusco …

Dec 28, 2025 · The Inca are an Indigenous people of South America who ruled an empire that extended along the Pacific coast and Andean highlands, from the northern border of modern Ecuador to the …

Sep 15, 2014 · Machu Picchu Aerial View Dan Merino (CC BY) The Inca civilization flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE. The Inca Empire eventually extended across western South …

Mar 11, 2015 · The Inca Empire was a vast South American civilization that at its peak stretched over 2,500 miles. Overwhelmed by Sp...

The year is 1475. It’s wintertime, and the Inca (EENG-kah) royal family is vacationing in Machu Picchu, a small city that serves as their royal retreat in what’s now Peru. The Inca capital city, Cusco, is now …

Jul 20, 2025 · The Inca civilization was the largest and most advanced empire in pre-Columbian South America. Centered in the Andes Mountains of Peru, the Inca Empire (Tawantinsuyu) stretched from …

The Tahuantinsuyu, or Incan religion was pantheist (sun god, earth goddess, corn god, etc.). Subjects of the empire were allowed to worship their ancestral gods as long as they accepted the supremacy of …

Incan pottery was distinctive and normally had a spherical body with a cone-shaped base. The pottery would also include curved handles and often featured animal heads, such as jaguars or birds.

11c. The Inca Empire: Children of the Sun When Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro landed in Peru in 1532, he found unimaginable riches. The Inca Empire was in full bloom. The streets may not have …

One chronicle written from an Incan perspective is Garcilaso de la Vega, el Inca's Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru (2006) and another, from a Quechuan but non-Inca …