Encyclopedia of the Incas

The Inca quadrant of Chinchaysuyu northwest of Cuzco featured the most elaborate stretches of road any ...

shrines, and way stations of this westward route. Settlements located along this road feature some of the ...

been identified as the possible author of an anonymous account titled La Conquista del Peru llamada l ...

As his name indicates, Diego de Trujillo was from Trujillo, Extremadura, Spain, where he was born in 150 ...

king list connected the imperial present to the mythical past, defining who was Inca, and helping to expl ...

records the age of each Inca ruler at death, as well as a cumulative duration of the dynasty, which ...

this approach on grounds that it promoted an early date for Inca expansion that did not conform to the ...

Niles, Susan A. The Shape of Inca History. Narrative and Architecture in an Andean Empire. Iowa City: Un ...

north-central highlands, this movement seems to represent a synthesis of cults found throughout a broad ...

Entrance to these elaborate buildings and ceremonial precincts was through monumental gateways, the mos ...

however, is yet understood about this religion. As with most agricultural societies, religion was un ...

The woven tunics of the Inca nobility are descended from the Huari tapestry tunics. Polychrome ceramics and ...

Born in Llerena, Extremadura, Spain, around 1518, Cieza came to the New World as a young soldier in ...

(see Expansion). The third part of Cieza’s chronicle covers the Spanish discovery and conquest of ...

Cobo’s plan for his work was quite ambitious. He initially proposed to write a total of 43 books divid ...

Chewed with potash or lime, coca leaves mitigate the effects of living and working in the harsh And ...

A woman offers coca leaf to a visitor; scenes such as these are still common in the Andes. Guaman Poma ...

necessary to “feed” them with sacrificial offerings. Coca was an essential component of virtually a ...

The Spanish conquest had a profound effect on the political economy of coca. Although the Church discourag ...

COLLASUYU The largest of all the suyu divisions, Collasuyu extended southward from Cuzco, embracing the so ...