All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

"The conquest of the Titicaca Basin was the jewel in the crown of the Inca Empire," says Charles Stanish ... three to seven years' worth of food in vast storage complexes. Imperial officials ...

At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest nation on Earth ... In return, rulers paid their laborers in clothing and food. Silver and gold were abundant, but only used for ...

All gold belonged to the ruler of the empire, the Inca himself, who claimed to be descended from the sun god. Llamas were the Incas' most important domestic animal, providing food, clothing and ...

Coca started to be used to dull hunger in lean times. Nevertheless, its association with food for the elite prevailed until the Inca Empire was conquered by the Spanish in 1532. The coca harvest ...

At the height of its existence the Inca Empire was the largest nation on Earth ... In return, rulers paid their laborers in clothing and food. Silver and gold were abundant, but only used for ...

But among the holiest places in the empire were mountain peaks, which the Inca and other peoples in the Andes often regarded as representing the origin points of societies, and the resting places ...

📜 The Inca Empire: Out of Thin Air - There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish colonizers, as well as the fact that ...

In the mid- to late-16th century, the Inca empire—weakened by internal strife—fell to the rule of invading Spanish colonizers. The Inca left no written records of their underground ...