Who were the Incas?
The ancestors
of the Incas lived among the
mountains of
Peru possibly as much as 4000
years ago.
The Incas began building up their country in
about A.D. 1200. From 1438 to 1493, two kings Pachacuti and
his son Topa Inca,
expanded the Inca empire.
It eventually
covered an area which
extended into
present-day Ecuador, Bolivia,
Chile and Argentina.
At its
height in the 1400s, there were seven million people
living in the Inca Empire. They were divided into nobles, common people and
slaves. The
emperor ruled as a dictator through a system of governors. The
Inca people never invented writing, but used knotted cards called
'quipu' to record numbers.
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