Inca Empire
Proper noun
Meaning
Inca Empire
The pre-Columbian empire spreading over many parts of western South America. It was controlled by the Incas, and had its capital as Cuzco.
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The closeness is at least in part because of the influence of Cusco Quechua on the Ecuadorean varieties in the Inca Empire, as northern nobles were required to educate their children in Cusco, which maintained Cusco as the prestige dialect in the north.
For example, it is thought that El Niño affected the Inca Empire in modern-day Peru, who sacrificed humans in order to try and prevent the rains.
However, according to Peruvian historiography, the Inca Empire never had a flag.
The cities of the Inca Empire were transformed into Spanish, Catholic cities.
The Inca Empire was an amalgamation of languages, cultures and peoples.
The Incas would not maintain control of the region for long, as the rapidly expanding Inca Empire was internally weak.