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The Inca civilization flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE. The Inca Empire eventually extended across western South America from Quito in the north to Santiago in the south. It was the largest empire ever seen in the Americas and the largest in the world at that time.
Undaunted by the often harsh Andean environment, the Incas conquered people and exploited landscapes in such diverse settings as plains, mountains, deserts, and tropical jungle. Famed for their unique art and architecture, they constructed finely-built and imposing buildings wherever they conquered, and their spectacular adaptation of natural landscapes with terracing, highways, and mountaintop settlements continues to impress modern visitors at such world-famous sites as Machu Picchu.
History
As with other ancient Americas cultures, the historical origins of the Incas are difficult to disentangle from the founding myths they themselves created. According to legend, in the beginning, the creator god Viracocha came out of the Pacific Ocean, and when he arrived at Lake Titicaca, he created the sun and all ethnic groups. These first people were buried by the god and only later did they emerge from springs and rocks (sacred pacarinas) back into the world. The Incas, specifically, were brought into existence at Tiwanaku (Tiahuanaco) from the sun god Inti; hence, they regarded themselves as the chosen few, the 'Children of the Sun', and the Inca ruler was Inti's representative and embodiment on earth. In another version of the creation myth, the first Incas came from a sacred cave known as Tampu T'oqo or 'The House of Windows', which was located at Pacariqtambo, the 'Inn of Dawn', south of Cuzco. The first pair of humans were Manco Capac (or Manqo Qhapaq) and his sister (also his wife) Mama Oqllu (or Ocllo). Three more brother-sister siblings were born, and the group set off together to found their civilization. Defeating the Chanca people with the help of stone warriors (pururaucas), the first Incas finally settled in the Valley of Cuzco and Manco Capac, throwing a golden rod into the ground, established what would become the Inca capital, Cuzco.
The rise of the Inca Empire was spectacularly quick. First, all speakers of the Inca language Quechua (or Runasimi) were given privileged status, and this noble class then dominated all the important roles within the empire. Thupa Inca Yupanqui (also known as Topa Inca Yupanqui), Pachacuti's successor from 1471 CE, is credited with having expanded the empire by a massive 4,000 km (2,500 miles). The Incas themselves called their empire Tawantinsuyo (or Tahuantinsuyu) meaning 'Land of the Four Quarters' or 'The Four Parts Together'. Cuzco was considered the navel of the world, and radiating out were highways and sacred sighting lines (ceques) to each quarter: Chinchaysuyu (north), Antisuyu (east), Collasuyu (south), and removedisuyu (west). Spreading across ancient Ecuador, Peru, northern Chile, Bolivia, upland Argentina, and southern Colombia and stretching 5,500 km (3,400 miles) north to south, 40,000 Incas governed a huge territory with some 10 million subjects speaking over 30 different languages.
The Inca Empire was founded on, and maintained by, force, and the ruling Incas were very often unpopular with their subjects (especially in the northern territories), a situation that the Spanish conquerors (conquistadores), led by Francisco Pizarro, would take full advantage of in the middle decades of the 16th century CE. The Inca Empire, in fact, had still not reached a stage of consolidated maturity when it faced its greatest challenge. Rebellions were rife, and the Incas were engaged in a war in Ecuador where a second Inca capital had been established at Quito. Even more serious, the Incas were hit by an epidemic of European diseases, such as smallpox, which had spread from central America even faster than the European invaders themselves, and the wave killed a staggering 65-90% of the population. Such a disease killed Wayna Qhapaq in 1528 CE, and two of his sons, Waskar and Atahualpa, battled in a damaging civil war for control of the empire just when the European treasure-hunters arrived. It was this combination of factors - a perfect storm of rebellion, disease, and invasion - which brought the downfall of the mighty Inca Empire, the largest and richest ever seen in the Americas.
The Inca language Quechua lives on today and is still spoken by some eight million people. There are also a good number of buildings, artefacts, and written accounts which have survived the ravages of conquerors, looters, and time. These remains are proportionally few to the vast riches which have been lost, but they remain indisputable witnesses to the wealth, ingenuity, and high cultural achievements of this great but short-lived civilization.
https://www.worldhistory.org/Inca_Civilization/
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Mr Lahey actually had a surprisingly vast knowledge of ornithology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shite-hawk
Times have gotten so tough Brian Bolland has started doing sequentials again.
(This is just a bit, he hasn't)
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Oedipus skill issue I'd just fuck his mum
It's time to bring back mentally ill drunken journal posting on the mega
I wanna start a sleazy hair metal band but based entirely around the band Tank's first album, GISM riffs and the song Live Wire by Motley Crue. Glam metal got slow too early. I also have sick feathered hair and csn write riffs for days.
the band Tank's
Yoooooooooooo. Recognized as a cool person with good niche taste
I have amazing taste in music. If there is one thing I have going on its that I know the absolute fuck out of music
Me too tbh. Probably the only thing I have going on
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I am a pile of contradictory thoughts and feelings and I don't trust any of them
Wire is the best band. Debate me.
Just noticed my kitty seems to like whe i sing iron maiden songs to her while she sleeps. The paws are going and she is dreaming
Holy Darby!
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Got a decent job after recovering from my injury. Pays well and the coworkers seem cool but uh...
The company name and logo are racist? I've been assured that the owner of the company belongs to the group himself but like... i don't want to wear the shirt because I'm a beardy white guy wearing something a baseball team would be pressured to change
at baseball game
singer starts performing "god bless america"
everybody stands
everybody faces a certain direction
i look where everybody's facing
it's the jack in the box mascot
Baseball Mecca.
Macca 
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The day that civil glory dismembered my civility I could have parted ribs and flesh like a different kind of Red Sea Drowned the ancient east in western
progress, custom and the least of all our pride and sentiments
Which turned out to be the closest thing to a fashion trend
That's ever been bulletproof
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That's ever been put on trial
The rest was cast off as denial of
statehood and mastery
The ultimate form of treason is the
treacherous use of reason
(the treacherous use)
Employed by the bastard sons of American fore-fathers who keep this fire burning With the flesh of their would-be American
daughters
What will happen to our children when the least of us pass on?
Us who fought the monsters of our country's crowded closet Us who dropped the bombs on goodness when we saw it wasn't flawless
Us whose youthful life was hostage to what harm did
Who fought the hardest to be swept under the carpet
And I'm still a cigarette softly smoking on the edge of a metal ashtray
I begged this place to let me burn, and it whispered, "burn away"
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I love them in general, even their new stuff
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James Harden sucks
my dad looked at me like i'm fuckin' insane because I was like "what if I smoke this cauliflower and then toss it in some harissa" (in a wood pellet smoker)
We need yo give classical pieces notmal song names. Crapaldi's 5th Interlude in G isnt memorable
when I posted saying i had the idea for what was basically monoclonal antibodies when I was in the 6th grade, i was lying, actually I'd read something about using lipids to create proto- cell membrane like structures and thought "if we could make artificial cells with whatever cell receptors we want at a large enough scale (but with nothing inside to replicate with), viruses would blow their loads on nothing and fail to replicate, effectively dying. wow i'm so smart"
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going back in time to say to myself "dumb kid"
Mistakes mean it's handmade. Leave in at least 1, always.
is it wrong to cook chinese food professionally if you're "white"
(i was thinking about applying to a local chinese restaurant but I saw a review or two complaining about that)
If you gaze into the beans for long enough, the beans gaze back into you...
Drinking alcohol every couple months as a reminder that it no longer does anything for me aside from make my meds stop working
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I applied for a position at my company, in a related team and thought I was a good candidate. They didn't even interview me!
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it is may 25 and stalin saved the world from fascism
And 
endorsed it. Bernie rallied for the obvious PLANTer "fighting the oligarchy" by looking the other way at a dude with a totenkoph skull tattoo who claims he was ignorant of it's meaning until he was called out on it by a reporter.
https://xcancel.com/BernieSanders/status/2058908791869960321#m
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