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The Inca Empire was located in South America. It was 772,204 square miles or 2,000,000 square kilometers and reached this size in 1527.
Q-Under the rule of Huayna Capac, the Inca Empire. A-Reached the height of its power and doubled in size.
Q-Under the rule of Huayna Capac, the Inca Empire. A-Reached the height of its power and doubled in size.
The Incas constructed a system of roads between the major cities of the empire.
Both empires were relatively the same size. They were, however, marginalized in Peru with the arrival of the colonial Spaniards. Some say for every 1 Inca, there were 2-3 Aztecs.
The Inca Empire was located in South America. It was 772,204 square miles or 2,000,000 square kilometers and reached this size in 1527.
They had to build a system of roads.
Q-Under the rule of Huayna Capac, the Inca Empire. A-Reached the height of its power and doubled in size.
Q-Under the rule of Huayna Capac, the Inca Empire. A-Reached the height of its power and doubled in size.
The Incan Empire was successful in defending their lands due to their powerful army. The Inca army started off weak, but grew in size and power. It was effective at defending Inca lands and winning new territories.
The Incas constructed a system of roads between the major cities of the empire.
When Francisco Pizarro and his group of Spanish explorers arrived in Peru in 1532, they discovered that the so-called Vilcanota area was the home of a great empire ruled by a dynastic lineage called the Inca. The empire stretched from Colombia to central Chile, and from the Pacific Ocean to the eastern tropical jungles. This turned out to be the largest political system of the Native Tribes in the entire Western Hemisphere. The capital of the Inca empire was a city named Cuzco. Inca tradition listed only 13 Inca rulers. Under the reign of three rulers this empire expanded to the size just described. The names of these rulers were Pachacutec, Topa Yupanqui and Huayna Capac. They were the father, son, and granson of the powerful Incas. It is asaid that within a period of 87 years, from approximately 1438 AD BCE to 1525, they had conquered all the territory previously described. The empire was now headed, in 1532, by the emperor Sapa Inca. This was an absolute ruler who had an army founded upon relatives of the ruler. In about four years, the Spainards, took over the empire, and its riches in gold.
We do not have first-hand information from the Inca people about the beginnings of their empire because the Inca did not have a written language. People who study the Inca civilization have pieced together information from different sources. They believe that the Inca people started living in the Cuzco Valley in A.D. 1100. By the early 1400s, the Inca empire still reached only 20 miles beyond the capital city of Cuzco. Rulers Viracocha Inca, and later his son, Pachacuti Inca, increased the size of the Inca empire through conquest. From the 1400s to the early 1500s, the empire grew and developed. After a civil war in the Inca empire, the triumphant ruler Atahualpa agreed to meet with a Spanish explorer named Francisco Pizarro. This was in the year 1532. Instead of the peaceful meeting Atahualpa expected, the Spaniards took him captive. Atahualpa tried to meet the Spaniards' demands for silver and gold, but he was killed in 1533. The Inca army fought the Spaniards but lost the war in 1536. Inca warriors continued to fight the Spaniards. When the last Inca leader was killed in 1572, the Inca empire was officially over. Like the Aztecs, many inhabitants of the Inca empire died as a result of the diseases the explorers unknowingly brought with them. The Spaniards forced the Inca to convert to Christianity.
Both empires were relatively the same size. They were, however, marginalized in Peru with the arrival of the colonial Spaniards. Some say for every 1 Inca, there were 2-3 Aztecs.
If he was, he'd be the size of the Empire State building.
Yes, they did: The great Inca Empire managed to capture around 2500 miles of land in their area of South America. They conquered an area that was similar in size to the doings of the great Roman empire.
Some problems that weakened the Inca Empire were internal civil wars over succession, a smallpox epidemic that devastated the population, and a lack of immunity to European diseases brought by the Spanish. Additionally, the empire's vast size made it difficult to govern effectively and respond quickly to external threats.