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Inca
[ ing-kuh ]
noun
- a member of any of the dominant groups of South American Indian peoples who established an empire in Peru prior to the Spanish conquest.
- a ruler or member of the royal family in the Incan empire.
Inca
/ ˈɪŋ°ìÉ™ /
noun
- a member of a South American Indian people whose great empire centred on Peru lasted from about 1100 ad to the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s and is famed for its complex culture
- the ruler or king of this empire or any member of his family
- the language of the Incas See also Quechua
Derived Forms
- ˈ±õ²Ô³¦²¹²Ô, adjective
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ±õ²Ô·³¦²¹Â·¾±³¦ [ing-, key, -ik, in-], adjective
- ±õ²Ôc²¹²Ô noun adjective
- pseudo-±õ²Ôc²¹²Ô adjective noun
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of Inca1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of Inca1
Example Sentences
The leaves were used as currency in the Inca Empire, which ruled the Andes mountains spanning the length of South America, and fed to the victims of human sacrifices before their untimely departures.
Pizarro founded Lima in 1535 after defeating the Inca Empire and claiming their lands for the Spanish crown.
“We see evidence for this all over the world,†she said, including in Viking and Inca cultures.
The European Space Agency reported a surprising finding in a region of Mars known as Inca City, in which dark shapes resembling spiders were discovered by the agency's Mars Express orbiting satellite.
This winter, he and Murphy went to Peru and toured Machu Picchu, the 15th-century Inca citadel perched on an 8,000-foot-high mountain ridge.
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