Did you know that the Incas worshiped the mummies of Their emperors? For the Incas, death didn\'t exist; it simply took the dead to a different plane of life.
You\'ll also discover the following: How the Inca Civilization developed out of a number of preceding cultures in the Andes and Peruvian coast
How quickly the Incas were able to expand and why they needed to
How the empire was administered and how runners were able to take messages from one end of it to the other with remarkable speed
The amazing Inca infrastructure program, which included building roads through mountain ranges and across raging rivers
Why Inca cuisine included tasty guinea pigs and llama jerky
Why there were never more than a few thousand actual Inca in the Inca Empire
The religion and beliefs of the Inca and how they developed over time to support the empire\'s mission
How just a couple of hundred Spanish adventurers managed to conquer and subdue the Inca Empire
How much Inca culture is left in Peru and Bolivia today
And so much more!.
In this book, you will discover how the Inca created an expansive empire in just a century and why that Civilization crumbled so fast once the Spanish arrived.
Now, archaeology is giving us more information on how the Inca really lived, helping us differentiate real history from myth and propaganda.
But Inca history has always been told by the Spanish colonizers who conquered them since the Inca had no formal writing.
Everyone has seen pictures of one of the Incas\' greatest achievements: the mountain-top wonder of Machu Picchu.
This might sound like a curiosity, but this form of ancestor worship was central to the Inca culture and to the history of the Inca Empire, which stretched from Ecuador and Colombia in the north to Chile in the south.
They also owned country estates, which generated enough profits to keep them in the style to which they were accustomed.
So, the mummies of Their emperors were treated as people; they were given food and drink and even visited each other ceremoniously.
Did you know that the Incas worshiped the mummies of Their emperors? For the Incas, death didn\'t exist; it simply took the dead to a different plane of life
