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<p>The Inca empire of Tawantinsuyu spanned almost 2,000 miles of enormous environmental variety, from coastal deserts to high-altitude grasslands. In less than a century, without wheeled vehicles or animals that could be ridden, the Incas conquered cultures that differed as tremendously as their environments. From agriculture-based polities with an elaborate material foundation like the Chimu of the north coast of Peru to marginal communities of fisherfolk like the Uru of the Lake Titicaca region, all were incorporated into a strongly hierarchical sociopolitical system as the empire spread during the Late Horizon, from A.D. 1438 to 1532. The essays in this distinctive, multifaceted volume combine the two principal sources of information on the Incas and the peoples they conquered - ethnohistorical accounts and archaeological research - to produce a single vision of a flexible, heterogeneous empire. The essayists' analytical focus evaluates the means by which we understand the Inca empire and its relationships with its conquered peoples; their empirical focus provides specific archaeological ways of identifying the Inca presence in provincial areas. Important contributions include t

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Author

Michael A. Malpass [Malpass, Michael A.]

Publisher

University Of Iowa Press

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781587291371

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

History, Sociology, Political Science