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Inca In The 12th Century

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The Inca first appeared in the Andes and what is today southeastern Peru in the 12th century and they gradually built a massive kingdom out of stone. Inca called their empire Tahuantinsuyu, or land of the four quarters. It stretched 2,500 miles from Quito, Ecuador, to beyond Santiago, Chile. The Inca controlled about 10 million people, speaking 100 different languages. At the time it was the largest empire on Earth. The Inca’s official language Quechua. The Incas believed that the god Viracocha created the Earth, Stars and all living things. They believed that he created the sun and moon by plucking them out of an island in Lake Titicaca. Inti was another important god to them. The largest religious Inca event each year was the multi-day

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