Inca Empire
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The Inca Empire, officially known as the Realm of the Four Parts, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America. The administrative, political, and military center of the empire was in the city of C
Stela in Tiwanaku's Kalasasaya temple
Manco Capac, First Inca, 1 of 14 Portraits of Inca Kings, Probably mid-18th century. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum
The first image of the Inca in Europe, Pedro Cieza de León, Crónica del Perú, 1553
Capaccona or Qhapaqkuna "the kings", a 17th-century Cusco painting with the Inca lineages mentioned by colonial chronicles and their relationship with the royal queens of Cuzco, which hide behind a complex representation of the Inca social organization.
Inca agriculture
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Inca agriculture was the culmination of thousands of years of farming and herding in the high-elevation Andes mountains of South America, the coastal deserts, and the rainforests of the Amazon basin.
Agricultural Andenes or terraces in the Sacred Valley of the Incas, close to Pisac, Peru.
Terraces were built to permit agriculture in the rugged terrain of the Andes.
Quinoa field near Lake Titicaca.
Around 200 varieties of potatoes were cultivated by the Incas and their predecessors.