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	Incan Indians (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Incan culture began as a small tribe in the southern highlands of Peru before the coming of the white man. This was in the Andes Mountains.
		This practice was characteristic of the Incans quest for organization and structure.
		The Incan civilization "stole the power of the Aztecs" leading to the extinction of the Aztecs and the rise of the Incas.
	www.millville.org /Workshops_f/Acker_Inca/incan.htm (1364 words)

	Inca Empire - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Incan religion was pantheist (sun god, earth goddess, corn god, etc.).
		Subjects of the empire were allowed to worship their ancestral gods as long as they accepted the supremacy of Inti, the sun god, which was the most important god worshipped by the Inca leadership.
		Those who obeyed the Incan moral code — ama suwa, ama llulla, ama quella (do not steal, do not lie, do not be lazy) — went to live in the Sun's warmth.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Incan_Empire (3582 words)

	Inca Agriculture
		Incan empire stretched the entire length of South America in the Andes and included virtually every type of environment imaginable.
		However, the majority of Incan crops are generally unknown outside the Andes.
		Resistance to Incan cropts and agricultural methods has begun to lessen and there is movement in South American governments to take another look at these crops.
	www.csdl.tamu.edu /FLORA/328Fall98/incag.html (608 words)

	Pre Columbian Religions - V Incan Religion
		Neither man was ethnically Incan; both traced their ancestry to tribes that had been conquered by the Incas.
		The core of Incan religion was ancestor worship.
		The Incan ruler and the mummies of his predecessors were the most important religious leaders.
	www.angelfire.com /realm/shades/nativeamericans/precolumbionrel5.htm (1085 words)

	Relative of Incan mummy alive
		One of the Incan mummies found in Argentina and whose genetic fingerprints provide clues to the historty of the Incas.
		Three frozen Incan mummies were discovered by a team of researchers on a snow-capped volcano in Argentina earlier this year.
		Using genetic samples from a genetic database of living Peruvian, researchers found an almost perfect match with one of them now living in Washington, D.C. The mummies were of two girls and a boy likely killed in a sacrificial ritual about 500 years ago.
	www.exn.ca /html/templates/printstory.cfm?ID=1999121658 (797 words)

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		The Incan Empire covered nearly 5,500 km and is said to be the biggest native state to rise in the Western Hemisphere.
		His innovations in warfare and a shift from basic looting to military campaigns as a means of spreading Inca culture and religion, brought Pachacuti the glory of a great and expanding empire.
		At the end of this conflict, many Incans dispersed although Manco and 20,000 followers traveled to the jungle to establish the city of Vilcabamba.
	www.pitt.edu /AFShome/l/i/lincs/public/html/andbg/cuzco/pcuzco3.htm (1062 words)

	IncaHome (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Around 1438 the empire began to expand, it covered a bast amount of land and was centered on the capital which was located in southern Peru.
		The Incans were very skilled when it came to engineering and crafts.
		Incan architecture was characterized by its great size and skillful construction.
	library.thinkquest.org /J002387/IncaHome.htm (247 words)

	Inca Religion, Peru cultural trips
		The Incan case, perhaps the most complicated of the three, represented an intricate blending of native and Catholic beliefs, aided by certain parallels between the two.
		However, the Incan imperial cult, like the Mesoamerican worship of agricultural deities, was an expression of the ancient and widespread religious tradition of ancestor worship.
		During the 16th and 17th centuries, Incan and Catholic beliefs were blended, revealing parallels between the two traditions.
	www.peru-explorer.com /get.htm (1605 words)

	INCAN EMPIRE SEED SUPPLEMENT from the Redwood City Seed Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		BEAN LIMA Incan Giant White (Pallares) Twice the size of the largest limas in North America, seeds are white and 1" long swelling to 2" long when cooked.
		They are prepared by heating a small amount of oil in a pan and add 1/2 cup dried corn kernels, cover and shake frequently until popped or golden brown.
		Incan corn, cobs 8" long, 2" across, 12 rows of dark purple kernels.
	www.ecoseeds.com /incan.html (301 words)

	News in Science - Incan capital looked to heavenly puma - 14/09/2004
		The Incan capital at Cusco was built to look like a dark puma-shaped constellation, according to an Italian scientist.
		The research by Professor Giulio Magli from the maths department at Milan's technical university was published recently on the physics website arXiv, which is owned and operated by the Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
		The Incan capital of Cusco was founded around the 12th century in what is now Peru and is about 110 kilometres south of the fortress city at Machu Picchu.
	www.abc.net.au /science/news/stories/s1198067.htm (454 words)

	Tupac Amaru: The Life, Times, and Execution of the Last Inca by James Q. Jacobs
		In another report, based on Salazar, the Inca is reported to have renounced Incan religion and admitted to the crowd that he had become a Christian.
		The military leader of the Incan army, Wallpa Yupanki was also decapitated, two generals were hung and the hands of three other resistors were chopped off, according to Guillon's recounting.
		Tupac Amaru's mortal remains are buried in the Church constructed upon the remains of the Coricancha, the Incan monument to the Sun which had housed the mummies of his ancestors.
	www.jqjacobs.net /andes/tupac_amaru.html (3746 words)

	Duane's Photographs of Incan Ruins
		I had stopped to ask an elderly lady about the location of the Incan wall that was pictured in the paper.
		The are also colorful local legends of ghosts that roam the streets and rumours that priests have dug tunnels underneath the church looking for lost buried treasure.
		I know there are many more Incan ruins out there to be found and I personaly enjoy looking for them each time I drive through the highlands of Ecuador.
	ecuadorphotos.tripod.com /inca/inca.html (1011 words)

	Incan Names
		Despite the claims of the Incas, the Incan civilization did not rise out of a barbaric vacuum.
		This empire flourished from 1200 to 1465 A.D. They were ultimately challenged and conquered by the unifying force of the Late Horizon period (1476 to 1532), the Inca Empire.
		Incan personal names could come from animals, plants, and flowers.
	www.geocities.com /mariamnephilemon/names/medievalnames/incan.html (1423 words)

	Athena Review, 3,4: Mameria: Incan Site Complex in the Antisuyu of SE Peru
		Yet much of Incan and Andean iconography shows a direct and powerful influence of the lowlands on the highlanders’ psyche: the harpy eagle; jaguar; amaru, or great and wise serpent; and the crocodilian caiman, all animals/symbols from the selva, are dominant.
		And it was gold from beyond the mountains that made for the most sacred of Incan decoration, and the feathers of tropical birds that were required by the sumptuous Incan court.
		The full story, then, of Mameria, an area of relatively extensive Incan habitation east of the Andes, and its connection to the Incan polity in the highlands, as well as its relations with the Antis at the edge of the known Incan world, remains to be investigated and written about more completely.
	www.athenapub.com /12mameria.htm (3449 words)

	inca
		In the Incan empire, in fact, most people worked the land as tenant farmers; the ruling elite owned most of the land and controlled the resources produced on that land.
		The Incan state mobilized subjects into forced labor to build the roads and bridges necessary to tie the empire together.
		Some have compared the Incan state to twentieth century states (especially totalitarian) in terms of the degree of state power, and the degree of state paternalistic care of subjects.
	www.hcc.hawaii.edu /distance/hist151/inca.htm (1835 words)

	The Syko Ward: New Incan City Found (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Not only was Llactapata probably a ceremonial site in its own right, excavations suggested that it might also have acted as a granary and dormitory for its sacred neighbor, he added.
		The Incas abandoned their towns and cities and retreated from the treasure-hunting Spanish invaders after the Conquistadors captured and executed the last Incan leader, Tupac Amaru, in 1572.
		Some of the cities have since been rediscovered, but many more are believed to lie hidden in the dense jungle, almost impossible to detect without new technology or a chance encounter.
	www.thesykoward.com /misc/newincancityfound.htm (411 words)

	Viracocha (Incan God)
		History: (Incan Myth) Viracocha is the son of the ancient gods Bochica and Chia who abdicated their roles in order for him to become ruler of the Incan gods and to allow the Incans to prosper.
		Some of the Incans may have fled as far north as Costa Verde in Central America where the spread worship of Viracocha to the Kamekeri Indians.
		The name of the realm for the Incan gods has never really been revealed; El Dorado was actually the Spanish name of a mythical city of gold presumably somewhere in the jungles of South America.
	www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/virac1.htm (597 words)

	Gate of the Sun - Ecuador - Andes - Trekking Old Incan Trails to Ingapirca
		The Incan population centres were connected by an elaborate and well-maintained system of roads 5,000 km in length - a larger system than that of the Roman Empire!
		This site is considered the most significant of the Incan ruins in Ecuador (built by Huayna Capac more than 500 years ago as a temple for the worship of the sun).
		Part of the Ingapirca ruins were probably used as a "tambo", or resting place, for Incan couriers traveling the road to and from Quito.
	www.gateofthesun.com /Ingapirca (644 words)

	Carnegie Museum unveils mysteries from Incan Peru in exhibit's limited tour
		A major exhibition of Incan artifacts from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History is designed to clarify some of that mystery.
		The ruins of Machu Picchu, which means "old Mountain Peak" in the Incan Quechua language, were rediscovered in 1911 by Yale archaeologist and professor Hiram Bingham III.
		The centerpiece of "Machu Picchu" is the more than 400 Incan artifacts dating from 1450 to 1532 -- from everyday tools and implements to sacred objects used in rituals.
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20031012inca1012fnp3.asp (1703 words)

	Incan Government
		At the head of the Incan empire was one man, the INCA.
		The one material tax that all Incan clans had to pay was an agricultural tax.
		Crime and Punishment The Incan government was a functioning theocracy, INCA was god and man. He was also the head of the government.
	www.westmifflinmoritz.com /Americas_Folder/Incan_government.htm (720 words)

	Scientific Thoughts: Incan String Theory
		History is full of instances where secret codes have been used in wars, to send messages to far-flung regions of a kingdom, or for just plain fun:).
		A string-based cryptic communication system was used by the ancient Incan administrators, and at last it might be unravelling, thanks to computer analysis of hundreds of different knotted bundles:):).
		The discovery provides a tantalising glimpse of bureaucracy in the Andean empire and may, for the first time, also reveal an Incan word written in string.
	scithought.blogspot.com /2005/08/incan-string-theory.html (931 words)

	Incan Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The languages of the empire, Quechua and Aymara, were chosen by the Catholic church to evangelize in the Incan area.
		The later rebellion led by Tupac Amaru is the source of the names of 20th century South American guerrillas Movimiento Revolucionario Túpac Amaru (MRTA) and Tupamaros.
		The Incan planned economy (and Maoism) are the inspiration of today's Peruvian guerrilla Sendero Luminoso.
	usapedia.com /i/incan-empire.html (2875 words)

	Incan culture may be expressed in knotted strings, scholar says - Alien Soup
		Harvard's Gary Urton said the khipus contain a wealth of overlooked information hidden in their construction details, such as the way the knots are tied -- and that these could be the building blocks of a lost writing system that records the history, myths and poetry of the Incas.
		The discovery of true Incan writing would revolutionize their field the same way that deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphics or Mayan glyphs lifted a veil from those civilizations.
		But it also has broader interest because the khipus could constitute what is, to Western eyes, an unorthodox writing system, using knots and strings in three dimensions instead of markings on a flat expanse of paper, clay or stone.
	forums.aliensoup.com /showthread.php?t=7693 (486 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Computer analysis provides Incan string theory
		The mystery surrounding a cryptic string-based communication system used by ancient Incan administrators may at last be unravelling, thanks to computer analysis of hundreds of different knotted bundles.
		Superficial similarities suggested that the Khipu could be connected but the database revealed a crucial mathematical bond - the data represented by subsidiary strands on some of Khipu could be combined to create the strands found on more complex ones.
		Given that the Puruchuco strings may represent collations of data different regions, they suggest that a characteristic figure-of-eight knot found on all of the 21 Puruchuco strings may represent the place itself.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn7835 (560 words)

	Incan portal unearthed in Peru (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cuzco was the seat of the Incan empire that ruled Peru before the arrival of Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century.
		Benavente said the seven-foot high doorway is similar to ones found at the Sacsayhuaman temple that sits on a hilltop overlooking Cuzco.
		Archaeologists have found a zigzagging wall similar to the one at Sacsayhuaman that is buried beneath Cuzco's modern-day buildings and that points toward the recently discovered doorway, he said.
	www.latinamericanstudies.org /incas/portal.htm (228 words)

	Incan Prophecies
		This fulfilled a sign that the prophecies of Mosoq, the "time to come," were now to be shared with the modern world.
		But in thevery home of those who symbolized the former conquerors of their Incan ancestors they shared their ritual and knowledge, not only with interested Westerners who were learning their ways, but also with the Dean of the great cathedral, thereby symbolically and spiritually linking the two continents of North and South America.
		This presents an opportunity for us to describe ourselves not as who we have been in the past but as who we are becoming.
	www.crystalinks.com /incan2.html (1227 words)

	TimesDispatch.com \| Incan knotted strings tell tale of ancient life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While the Incan empire left nothing that would be considered writing by today's standards, it did produce knotted strings in various colors and arrangements that have long puzzled historians and anthropologists.
		The Incan empire flourished along the western edge of South America in the late 1400s, ending with the arrival of the Spanish in the early 1500s.
		The Spanish reportedly wrote down some of the Incan stories, but destroyed many of the khipu.
	www.timesdispatch.com /servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784638000&path=%21health%21healthology&s=1045855935235 (536 words)

	DailyOM - The Incan City Of Machu Picchu
		Today, its ruins are explored by pilgrims from the world over, many of whom retrace the steps of the Incan Trail, meditating upon the lost civilization that once existed among the clouds.
		Here, each winter solstice, an Incan priest would preside over a ritual ceremonially tying the sun to the intihuatana, the hitching post of the sun, to prevent its disappearance with the arrival of winter.
		Many modern pilgrims to the city choose to retrace the steps of the Incan pilgrims by hiking the trail, a preparation for the meditative experience of exploring the ruins.
	www.dailyom.com /articles/2004/123.html (439 words)

	Incan Treasures Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Incan Treasures Alpaca Ranch (ITAR) offers a lucrative, alternative lifestyle to those interested in honoring the American farm tradition.
		Alpacas are the rarest of all domestic livestock, and their fiber is used to create valuable, durable, alpaca products that can be worn on the body or displayed in the home.
		The dawn or the beginning of alpaca farming at Incan Treasures Alpaca Ranch (ITAR) has been filled with the ambiance of mysticism.
	www.incantreasures.com (270 words)

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