The Inca Empire (Quechua: Tawantinsuyu, lit. "The Four Regions"[1]), also known as the Incan Empire and the Inka Empire, was the largest empire in pre-Columbian America,[2] and possibly the largest empire in the world in the early 16th century.[3] Its political and administrative structure "was the most sophisticated found among native peoples" in the Americas.[4] The administrative, political and military center of the empire was located in Cusco in modern-day Peru. The Inca civilization arose from the highlands of Peru sometime in the early 13th century. Its last stronghold was conquered by the Spanish in 1572.
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- ↑ McEwan 2008, p. 221.
- ↑ (15 August 2010) [[[:Template:Google books]] After Collapse: The Regeneration of Complex Societies]. University of Arizona Press. ISBN 978-0-8165-2936-0.
- ↑ Moseley, Michael E. (2001), The Incas and their Ancestors, London: Thames and Hudson, p. 7
- ↑ Mark A. Burkholder and Lyman L. Johnson, Colonial Latin America, 7th edition. New York: Oxford University Press 2010, p. 19