• The Inca aqueducts refer to any of a series of aqueducts built by the Inca people. The Inca built such structures to increase arable land and provide...
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    and ancient Inca. The simplest aqueducts are small ditches cut into the earth. Much larger channels may be used in modern aqueducts. Aqueducts sometimes...
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    Chilean Inca Trail Aclla, the "chosen women" Amauta, Inca teachers Amazonas before the Inca Empire Anden, agricultural terrace Inca cuisine Inca aqueducts Paria...
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    other aqueducts in different parts of the city. They are part of a system of aqueducts of the same type called puquios that were built by the pre-Inca civilization...
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    Less than a century prior to the arrival of the Spanish conquerors, the Incas, from their homeland centered on the city of Cusco, united most Andean cultures...
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  • The Tawantinsuyu (Quechua: "land of the four quarters") or Inca Empire was a centralized bureaucracy. It drew upon the administrative forms and practices...
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    Cápac Yupanqui (category Inca emperors)
    (Quechua Qhapaq Yupanki Inka, "splendid accountant Inca") (c. 1320 – c. 1350) was the fifth Sapa Inca of the Kingdom of Cusco (beginning around CE 1320)...
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  • Mit'a (redirect from Mita (Inca))
    (Quechua pronunciation: [ˈmɪˌtʼa]) was mandatory service in the society of the Inca Empire. Its close relative, the regionally mandatory Minka is still in use...
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    The Inca complex at Pisac is a large Incan complex of agricultural terraces, residences, guard posts, watchtowers and a ceremonial/religious centre located...
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    Inca Empire, located near Cusco, Peru. An alternate Spanish name is El Baño del Inca ("the bath of the Inca"). It consists of a series of aqueducts,...
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